<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Paul,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">That is really great to see, close to home. My wife uses Chromebook, and I have often been</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">frustrated as a Windows user not being able to help her with some things. Also, I have the <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">impression that more and more students use the affordable Chromebook, and many of them</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">could make good use of LYX.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Doug<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 7:42 AM Dr Paul Verschueren <<a href="mailto:paul@verschueren.org.uk">paul@verschueren.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I assumed that the relative silence indicated I’m on my own, so I thought I would make an initial investigation this lunchtime.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Great news - it turns out to be relatively trivial to get Lyx working under Chrome OS, and there is no need to compile a native app.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Chrome OS sets up a small VM with a copy of Debian 10, and Lyx 2.3.2 installs cleanly via apt(?) - even for a Windows die-hard like myself with no previous Linux exposure.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Performance does not seem an issue – there is a slight slow-down noticeable compiling a complex 40 page math paper, but it is perfectly acceptable (to me at least).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I now have several Word docs open, about 20 Chrome browser tabs, some pdfs, Debian and Lyx all running happily in 4Gb RAM and with a 32Gb disk – amazing!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">The more challenging steps now will be replicating my custom Lyx environment under Linux (all those weird path names!), and gaining access to all my OneDrive disks (I’ve found a Linux utility called rclone,
but it doesn’t seem to like my multiple OneDrive setup). Again any previous experience/hints/tips would be most welcome.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">My congratulations to all the team who have obviously kept the product lean and mean – I did not have high expectation of getting it working well on a Chromebook, but I was wrong!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Paul<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US"> Richard Kimberly Heck <<a href="mailto:rikiheck@lyx.org" target="_blank">rikiheck@lyx.org</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> 15 April 2021 22:26<br>
<b>To:</b> Dr Paul Verschueren <<a href="mailto:paul@verschueren.org.uk" target="_blank">paul@verschueren.org.uk</a>>; LyX Users <<a href="mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" target="_blank">lyx-users@lists.lyx.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Lyx on Chromebook<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 4/15/21 1:01 PM, Dr Paul Verschueren wrote:<span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’m just evaluating a friend’s Chromebook – and I’m very impressed. It seems to do everything I want, at a fraction of the weight and cost of my old dying laptop … with one exception – Lyx!</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This link: <a href="https://www.bestchromebookapps.com/lyx-for-chromebook/" target="_blank">
https://www.bestchromebookapps.com/lyx-for-chromebook/</a> promises Lyx is available as an app. This is presumably just nonsense?
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<p>Yes, garbage. there's no LyX app.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Qt does exist for Android, so it might be possible to compile LyX for Android. It would probably take some adjustments here and there. There's some info here:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35231168/how-to-build-an-executable-for-android-shell/35275134#35275134" target="_blank">
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35231168/how-to-build-an-executable-for-android-shell/35275134#35275134</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p> <a href="http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2016/07/01/android-cli/" target="_blank">http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2016/07/01/android-cli/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p>but it may be a bit out of date.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Riki<u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">R. Douglas Martin<div>Professor Emeritus in Applied Mathematics and Statistics</div><div>Founder and Former Director of MS-CFRM Program</div><div><a href="http://depts.washington.edu/compfin/" target="_blank">depts.washington.edu/compfin/</a></div><div>University of Washington</div></div></div></div>