top tool bar not available

John White john at whitelawchartered.com
Thu Dec 22 06:02:32 UTC 2022


On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 4:26:21 PM PST John White wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 12:47:19 PM PST Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> > On 12/21/22 15:29, John White wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 12:16:22 PM PST Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> > > > On 12/21/22 14:29, John White wrote:
> > > > > Thank you Paul very much for the suggestion.  It caused me to think
> > > > > 
> > > > > that something might be wrong with permissions.  So I opened lyx in
> > > > > 
> > > > > root and the top tool bar shows.  It only doesn't show when I open
> > > > > it
> > > > > 
> > > > > on a regular, non-root command line or from the lyx icon.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I am not sure where the system menu is.  Lyx can be used without the
> > > > > 
> > > > > top menu bar but it will only print to one pdf version.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > John
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 11:09:52 AM PST Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> > > > > > On 12/19/22 14:44, John White wrote:
> > > > > > > So I removed lyx and lyx common and reinstalled on my debian
> > > 
> > > bullfrog
> > > 
> > > > > > > system.  This is what I get now when trying to open Lyx:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop is not a readable LYX
> > > 
> > > document.
> > > 
> > > > > > > Any suggestions?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > John
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Are you launching LyX from a terminal or from the system menu.
> > > 
> > > If the
> > > 
> > > > > > menu, try editing the system menu entry. I would not be
> > > 
> > > surprised if it
> > > 
> > > > > > somehow ended up using the command "lyx
> > > > > > /usr/share/.../lyx.desktop",
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > which would launch LyX and try to open the desktop file as a
> > > 
> > > document.
> > > 
> > > > > > Paul
> > > > 
> > > > John,
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Please bottom-post on stuff going to the list.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > There are two different pathologies here (likely unrelated), the
> > > > missing
> > > > 
> > > > top toolbar and the "not readable" error message referring to the
> > > > 
> > > > desktop file. My comment about the system menu was related to the
> > > > 
> > > > latter. I don't use Debian (I'm on Mint), but if you have a button
> > > > that
> > > > 
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