top tool bar not available

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 12/21/22 15:29, John White wrote:
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> On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 12:16:22 PM PST Paul A. Rubin wrote:
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> > On 12/21/22 14:29, John White wrote:
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> > > Thank you Paul very much for the suggestion.  It caused me to think
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> > > that something might be wrong with permissions.  So I opened lyx in
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> > > root and the top tool bar shows.  It only doesn't show when I open it
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> > > on a regular, non-root command line or from the lyx icon.
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> > > I am not sure where the system menu is.  Lyx can be used without the
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> > > top menu bar but it will only print to one pdf version.
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> > > John
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> > > On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 11:09:52 AM PST Paul A. Rubin wrote:
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> > > > On 12/19/22 14:44, John White wrote:
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> > > > > So I removed lyx and lyx common and reinstalled on my debian 
> bullfrog
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> > > > > system.  This is what I get now when trying to open Lyx:
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> > > > > /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop is not a readable LYX 
> document.
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> > > > > Any suggestions?
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> > > > > John
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> > > > Are you launching LyX from a terminal or from the system menu. 
> If the
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> > > >
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> > > > menu, try editing the system menu entry. I would not be 
> surprised if it
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> > > > somehow ended up using the command "lyx /usr/share/.../lyx.desktop",
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> > > > which would launch LyX and try to open the desktop file as a 
> document.
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> > > > Paul
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> > John,
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> > Please bottom-post on stuff going to the list.
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> > There are two different pathologies here (likely unrelated), the missing
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> > top toolbar and the "not readable" error message referring to the
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> > desktop file. My comment about the system menu was related to the
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> > latter. I don't use Debian (I'm on Mint), but if you have a button that
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> > you use to launch a menu of available programs, that's what I mean. You
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> > mentioned using the command line or a "LyX icon". Do you get the error
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> > message both ways or just using the icon?
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> > As far as the top toolbar goes, is it actually the /top toolbar/ you are
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> > missing (buttons for selecting environments, creating/opening files,
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> > applying italics and other fun stuff) or the /menu bar/ (File menu, Edit
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> > menu etc.)? The subject line says toolbar but you mentioned "menu bar".
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> > Paul
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> Thanks again.  I no longer get an error message. Lyx just opens 
> without the top tool bar. I think its probably the menu bar that I am 
> missing (the one that lets you open recent files and save a lyx file 
> to various pdf versions). This is pretty confusing for me. I may wait 
> til Christmas is over before looking into it further.  Right now what 
> I do is email the lyx file to my secretary who can print it out fine.
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> John
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If you want to look into it, try typing alt+T, which should open up the 
Tools menu. From there, go to Preferences > Look & Feel > User 
Interface. The first entry on the right is the user interface file. 
Unless you've futzed with it, it probably says "default". Try browsing 
to /usr/share/lyx/ui and selecting default.ui. Hopefully that will 
restore the missing menu. You might also want to run "ls -l 
/usr/share/lyx/ui/stdmenus.inc" in a terminal and verify that the 
stdmenus.inc file is readable by other accounts besides root. 
Permissions on my system are "-rw-r--r--". If the last "r" is missing, 
that might (or might not) explain why root gets the menus and you don't.

Paul
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