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

[Kornel Benko]

Am Sat, 27 Nov 2021 20:53:34 -0500
schrieb Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>:

> Here's the thing. LyX exhibited this symptom for *every* previewer
> except for qpdfview. When I temporarily uninstalled qpdfview so it
> couldn't be found, it used a second viewer, and no attempt to use
> any third viewer would displace the second viewer. LyX was obviously
> going down a list and using the first viewer, on that list, that it
> found. I found just such a list in reconfigure.py, reordered the list,
> and changed it to use mupdf, and it used mupdf.
> 
> So until somebody can show me a way to select a viewer to assign to the
> eyeballs, my conclusion is the only way to set the eyeballs viewer is
> to go into reconfigure.py and rearrange the viewer array argument of
> CheckViewer() in cases where the filetype is PDF.
> 
> SteveT

You could check your new lyxrc.default for all lines containing "mupdf"
and add them to the file 'preferences'. This file is not changed by reconfigure.
Any entry in preferences will be preferenced over the ones in lyxrc.default.

	Kornel
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