[Bradford] Dead icons in Lyx toolbar

[Devo Too]

Thanks Darren. It's already installed. Just reinstalling to see if it 
makes a difference. It didn't.

On 14/04/2019 18:12, Darren Drapkin via Bradford wrote:
> A little search on Slackware's sboui installer says, that you may need to
> uninstall your current installation of Latex, and install a new version of
> Latex, such as texlive.
> 
> I know you are not running Slackware, but I could be a version control error
> such as this.
> 
> On Sunday 14 Apr 2019 17:13:46 John Robert Hudson via Bradford wrote:
>> Hi Mike
>>
>> The most likely reason is that not all the packages have been downloaded.
> Go
>> to Tools>Reconfigure and, when that has finished, close LyX and, when you
>> reopen it, go to Help>LaTeX Configuration which will tell you what packages
>> have been installed. Most of them will be completely irrelevant if they are
>> not installed but that may give you the first insight if something which
>> looks important has not been installed.
>>
>> In the meantime try Export>DVI - this is what LaTeX used before PDFs became
>> open source.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Sunday, 14 April 2019 14:58:53 BST Devo Too via Bradford wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> After a fascinating introduction to Lyx/Latex/Tex by John at Tuesday's
>>> BradLUG, I installed Lyx on the PC and, having finally got the laptop
>>> into a functioning state at the same meeting thanks to David, Lyx on the
>>> laptop too.
>>>
>>> Initial results using the PC were terrific and easy to achieve. But
>>> copying the draft report to the laptop, the first four toolbar icons*
>>> are dead.
>>>
>>> Tried going into the dropdown menus to get a view of the PDF outputs,
>>> which didn't work either.
>>>
>>> *The icons are "View" (pdf output - image of two eyeballs), "Update"
>>> (image of two arrows forming a circle, like an old fashioned browser
>>> "refresh" button), "View master document" (two eyeballs on a file cover)
>>> and "Update master document" (old refresh arrows on a file cover). The
>>> third and fourth are also inactive on the PC, not used anyway so not so
>>> bothered.
>>>
>>> The first one, though, is used constantly.
>>>
>>> I've searched on various terms to find answers, checked permissions,
>>> double checked to ensure I installed at least the same programmes onto
>>> the laptop as on the PC (although Latex was already installed when I
>>> started putting Lyx on the PC), dug around in a few file systems hinted
>>> at here and there as I've been reading. These were mainly Xorg and
>>> Nvidia, one of which I still suspect may hold the solution.
>>>
>>> Is this a hint? Sometimes when closing Xfce the ystem comes up with a
>>> line containing "Waiting for X server to shut down: fatal 10 error (or
>>> error10?): resource temporarily unavailable - which goes on but runs off
>>> the screen so I can't see the last part.
>>>
>>> Both boxes have Arch installed. The PC has Gnome and the laptop has Xfce
>>> as its GUI.
>>>
>>> So can anybody please point me in a direction which may prove fruitful
>>> in solving this problem?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
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