[Bradford] Dead icons in Lyx toolbar

[Devo Too]

Thanks, John.

Yes, I'd recognised there is something wrong or missing with the Qt 
installation. I hadn't realised it or LyX was heavily dependent upon 
Python and hadn't picked up on the "additional software" part of the LyX 
site.

There is still a problem with Xfce4. No idea yet if the two are related.

Much appreciated.

Mike

On 14/04/2019 21:58, John Robert Hudson wrote:
> 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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