input child document doesn't work

[Stephan Witt]

Am 15.02.2023 um 14:01 schrieb Alwin van Steensel <alwinvansteensel at gmail.com>:
> 
> Dear people in the LyX users group,
> 
> I hope this is the right place to ask this question, if not I apologize. I've tried to find an answer by Googling and in the archive of this mailing list but couldn't find an answer. 
> 
> My question is regarding the function to insert a child document into a LyX document using the input type insertion. When I insert another LyX file into my current LyX file
> 
> insert > file > child document
> 
> and in the pop-up windows choose browse and select a file and choose the include type to be
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> input
> 
> nothing happens. Nothing is added into the document. (If the document was saved before trying this and I close the file afterwards, it doesn't ask me if I want to save the document of discard the changes. So the attempt to insert a document didn't make any changes in the document.)

Dear Alwin,

there is a problem report in LyX ticket system:

https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10047

I think you’re suffering from the same effect. The LyX dialog popup with the file chooser button is not the top-most window after you made your choice. You may move the LyX main window slightly to the left/right or up/down and probably will see the dialog popup sitting behind the main window.

This is an unsolved bug.

Best regards,
Stephan

> 
> Some system details:
> 
> LyX 2.3.7
> MacOS version 13.1 Ventura
> Tex Live 2017 (on path)
> 
> Additional info:
> 
> 	• It used to work half a year ago:
> The function did work before. I've not been using LyX for about 5 months but last time I did, it did work. According to the last date the files were edited it still worked 10th of October 2022. I was using an older version of LyX at the time and updated it only yesterday to see if it would solve the problem. The older LyX version is not a very old version though, I believe it was a 2.3.x version.
> 	• The only thing changed on my system (I believe) is the MacOS version:
> Therefore at first glance it seems to me that it has something to do with updating my MacOS operating system to Monterey earlier and Ventura now. From the LyX download page I understand these newer versions of MacOS no longer include a Python interpreter which LyX needs to work. It refers to this page which shows how to install Python. However, python is already installed on my system and on my path, i.e. the command 'python3' starts a python session in my terminal. The command 'python' (no 3 at the end) gives an error (perhaps LyX wants to use this command?). The page also describes a message popping up when first opening LyX after a fresh install and Python is not found on the system, I don't remember such a message popping up when I first started LyX after the new installation. I just reinstalled LyX again to see if it would pop up now but it didn't. It seems Python is there and LyX can find it (I didn't get a pop up message) but I am not certain. I wouldn't know what else could be the problem.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. If any more information is needed I will provide it as best as I can. Thank you in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Alwin
> 
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