[Bradford] Dead icons in Lyx toolbar

[John Robert Hudson]

Hi Mike

Arch uses the most uptodate version of LyX and should install all its 
dependencies. However, there is a list of which additional software you need 
which says that you need particular versions of Qt and Python: https://
www.lyx.org/AdditionalSoftware

Might be worth checking.

John

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:27:15 BST Devo Too via Bradford wrote:
> 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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