LyX 2.3.5.2 Relesed

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 7/11/20 4:05 PM, Yu Jin wrote:
> Am Sa., 11. Juli 2020 um 20:58 Uhr schrieb Bernd
> <bernd.kappenberg at gmx.de <mailto:bernd.kappenberg at gmx.de>>:
>
>     Yes, I started it with the checkbox on the last page of the installer.
>
>     I use Windows 10 and was using administrator privileges to install
>     LyX 2.3.5.2.
>
>     (The same happened with an ealier version of LyX.)
>
>     Strangely, this time I could not activate Acrobat Reader DC, even
>     though I found the output file.
>
>     After a restart, everything was OK.
>
>     Bernd
>
> Looks like after installing LyX as admin and then checking the box on
> the finish page to run LyX, runs it as admin too.
> I didn't put much thought into it when writing Installer2, I thought
> about it just a little. Because I found a comment in the code, which
> says that there was a bug report about this already and it has
> apparently been fixed already, so I didn't worry about it. But it's
> still not fixed.

This has been a problem for a long time.


> I have found that there is no easy way to run a process as a user from
> the NSIS installer, only the "hard" way, which means just using a
> plugin. I have found this plugin:
> https://nsis.sourceforge.io/ShellExecAsUser_plug-in.
> i will commit it to Installer2.

Good!


> Riki, is it worth putting it into Installer as well (for stable that
> is)? It would mean that you would need to install the plugin too.
This seems like a big enough change that we should probably wait for
2.4.0. That said, would it be easy to disable the checkbox to run LyX
after install? That's what causes the problem.

Riki

 
>
>
>     Am 11.07.2020 um 20:29 schrieb Yu Jin:
>>     Am Sa., 11. Juli 2020 um 16:48 Uhr schrieb Bernd
>>     <bernd.kappenberg at gmx.de <mailto:bernd.kappenberg at gmx.de>>:
>>
>>         When I start LyX 2.3.5.2 for the first time, it tells me
>>         "security
>>         alert: ... started with elevated privileges" and the PDF is
>>         created but
>>         not shown (= failure to open).
>>
>>         After a restart, everything is OK.
>>
>>         Not really a bug, more a hiccup.
>>
>>         Kind regards,
>>
>>         Bernd
>>
>>
>>     Hello Bernd,
>>
>>     Thank you for your feedback. Can you please provide some more
>>     information?
>>
>>     Which operating system are you using?
>>     How exactly do you start LyX for the first time? E.g. on Windows
>>     there is a checkbox on the last page of the installer. Or do you
>>     simply launch the program like you would usually do?
>>     Which pdf viewer are you using?
>>
>>     Eugene
>
>

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