Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview

[Steve Litt]

Paul A. Rubin said on Thu, 25 Nov 2021 23:11:34 -0500

>On 11/25/21 8:49 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> No matter what I've tried, Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon
>> displays the PDF version of the document only in qpdfview. I changed
>> tools=>preferences=>output=>general=>PDF Command to  
>> mupdf "$$o#src:$$f:$$n:0"
>> and yet still, the eyeballs and Ctrl+R display in qpdfview.
>>
>> Why this matters is, alone in all my PDF viewers, qpdfview displays
>> links with annoying boxes around them, even though I did:
>>
>> \usepackage{hyperref }%          Colored, clickable URLs
>> \hypersetup{
>>    hidelinks = true,
>>    colorlinks   = true, %Colours links instead of ugly boxes
>>    urlcolor     = linkcolor, %Colour for external hyperlinks
>>    linkcolor    = linkcolor, %Colour of internal links
>>    citecolor   = green %Colour of citations
>> }
>>
>> So, how does one set the viewer when presses Ctrl+R or clicks the
>> eyeballs?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
>> Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the
>> Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques  
>Try Tools > Preferences... > File Handling > File Format, select in
>the "Format:" box the way you compile to PDF (so "PDF (pdflatex)" for
>me, since I'm old fashioned), then select your preferred PDF viewer in
>the "Viewer:" menu and click OK. If your preferred viewer is not
>there, select "Custom" and put the command to run the viewer in the
>box alongside the menu.

Thanks Paul,

Tools=>Preferences=>File Handling=>File Formats=>Viewer: is a list box
that gives me only two choices: None and Custom. It was on None, so I
switched to Custom and put mupdf, and left and restarted LyX. No
change, still rendered in qpdfview. So I went into
~/.lyx/lyxrc.defaults and added 
\viewer_alternatives pdf  "mupdf"
for pdf thru pdf8. But when I exited and restarted LyX, the Viewer
dropdown still only offered Custom and None.

So as a Hail Mary, after adding all the mupdf lines, I performed a
Tools=>Reconfigure, and it replaced all my mupdf with qpdfview. :/-)

At this point it was 3:30AM and I decided to save it for another day.

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt 
Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful
Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques