Laggy cursor

[Tim Garrett]

Thanks again Scott for your response and thoughtful help. I attach the file. I updated LyX to 2.3.7. This has indeed only been a problem in the past couple of years. I’ve sort of tolerated it because I mostly collaborate now rather than writing myself — getting old and rusty. For collaborations I use Overleaf though I still prefer LyX.

In 2001, KLyX changed my life, but because of the top search result! Ewwww

Tim

On 8 Aug 2023, at 14:42, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 08:23:15AM -0600, Tim Garrett wrote:
>>
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> Thank you for the quick response. Definitely not a branch. If the source LaTeX pane is the code preview pane, that is not open either (I also noticed that suggestion searching through threads).
>>
>> My troubleshooting step is simply open new file, paste text from a paragraph from some other file, double paste, and notice the difference in cursor speed.
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> Tim
>
> Thanks for those details, Tim!
>
> It's good to know those two theories of mine are not correct.
>
> Thanks for sending your system info in your initial message, that's helpful. In particular, it's helpful to know that you're on macOS, if I understand correctly. We have definitely seen strange things reported by macOS users the last couple years.
>
> I see you are on LyX 2.3.6.2. Can you test the most recent version of LyX? I do not see an entry in the changelog from 2.3.6.2 to 2.3.7 (http://lists.lyx.org/pipermail/lyx-announce/2023/000012.html) that appears related to your issue, but it's still worth checking. Also, 2.3.7 might be compiled with a newer version of Qt which can bring fixes as well so maybe you'll get lucky.
>
> By the way, what is KLyX? Was that the original name of LyX? When I search for KLyX on Wikipedia, it redirects to something surprising; you have my sympathy if you've been using that since 2001 ;)
>
> Do I understand correctly that you did not experience this issue before? If so, do you know when the issue started to appear for you? Was it during an upgrade of LyX versions?
>
> I haven't heard of this particular issue before from any user (perhaps others have?), so it might be difficult to debug and figure out the root cause.
>
> Even though you can reproduce the issue from just opening a new file, it would still be helpful for you to send us a file where the cursor speed is slow for you. The reason for this is that it's possible to change the default document settings of new documents, so a new file for you is not necessarily the same as a new file for me. I don't *think* this is the root issue, but it would still be helpful to rule it out.
>
> Best,
> Scott
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