Importing files: Some file types (.tex, .odt) only show up under "All files"

[Tobias Hilbricht]

Thank you for your quick response!

I have attached the screenshots "LyX_import_LaTeX.png" and
"LyX_import_all_files.png", which illustrate the problem.
 
The mime types .tex and .odt seem to be known by my system, because the
proper icons show up on the desktop and in the filemanager, and
clicking them directly opens the appropriate application. For example,
in TeXstudio when I click "Open", only LaTeX-files are shown. I did
nothing special on any file related to mime-types that I can think of.

Is it possible to accidentally do something in LyX which malconfigures
in the way illustrated by the screenshots?

Thanks for helpful hints in advance!
Tobias Hilbricht



Am Montag, den 24.02.2020, 17:32 -0500 schrieb Paul A. Rubin:
> On 2/24/20 3:12 PM, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
> > Dear readers of this list,
> > I am using LyX 2.3.4.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.4 and have the following
> > issue:
> > When clicking File -> Import File -> LaTeX (plain), a window pops
> > up
> > allowing to choose a LaTeX.tex file. However, when navigating to a
> > folder which contains LaTeX.tex files and the menu just above the
> > button "Open" says "LaTeX", no file at all shows up. When changing
> > the
> > menu button to "All Files" all files are shown. The same is true
> > for
> > OpenDocument.odt files - they do not show up specifically when the
> > menu
> > says "OpenDocument", but only among many others, which lengthens
> > the
> > process of file choosing.
> > 
> > By contrast, when trying to import HTML, the menu just above the
> > "Open"
> > button reads "HTML", and all HTML-files in the folder are shown; it
> > works as expected for OpenDocument spreadsheets (ods), too, and for
> > MS-
> > Word Office-Open XML (docx).
> > 
> > Is this a local malconfiguration - if so, how can I reconfigure my
> > system properly - or is this a bug?
> > 
> > Thanks for helpful hints
> > Tobias Hilbricht
> > 
> 
> I am unable to reproduce this with LyX 2.3.4.2 on Linux Mint 18.3
> (which 
> is Ubuntu-based). Can you post a screen shot, like the attached, of
> the 
> file open dialog when it malfunctions?
> 
> Paul
> 
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