Ventura graphics Mac

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jan 21, 2023, at 5:23 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam at lisse.NA> wrote:
> On 2.3.7 and Intel 13.1, I can also not use the File Browser to insert
> graphics.  But then I haven't inserted graphics for a while.  On the
> 2.3.7 on an intel 12.6.2 I don't see that behavior.

Right, because 12.6.2 is Monterey, and what we’re dealing with appears to be a Ventura bug.

> The alternative proposed here makes not sense whatsoever to me,
> especially on an M1. The (speed) limiting factor is LaTeX (in
> particular LuLaTeX).

I guess you are talking about my suggested alternative of running LyX in a Linux VM under Parallels? How does it "make no sense whatever" to you to have a fast, fully-functional version of LyX that does not exhibit the bug in question? (Just to note, I’ve also had LyX 2.3.7 simply crash on me a couple of times under Ventura in random situations, so there are apparently further problems and, hence, reasons independent of this bug to run LyX in a VM.)

> Universal binary in any case means that on the M1 the M1 binary runs and
> on the Intel the Intel binary.  However, even running the Intel binary
> on the M1 under Rosetta makes no real difference, other than that it
> loads slower.  But since LyX is set up to open at login I would not even
> care.

Are you saying that the bug doesn’t occur if you use a LyX Intel (i.e., non-universal) binary under Ventura via Rosetta? That is not the case, for either version 2.3.6.2 or 2.3.7. You can’t insert a graphic via the file browser in either one.

-cm

> On 21/01/2023 23:02, Christopher Menzel wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> This definitely appears to be a Ventura thing.  I can’t insert
>> graphics on my 2021 MacBook Pro using either 2.3.6.2 or 2.3.7 but both
>> versions work just fine on my old iMac under Big Sur.  
>> 
>> You can mitigate the pain of the kludgy workaround a little bit by
>> locating your desired graphic in the Finder, right clicking and
>> selecting “Get Info”.  This will bring up an info window that contains
>> the full Unix path to the containing directory that you can copy and
>> paste into the “file:” field in the LyX pop-up for inserting graphics.
>> You’ll still have to type in the file name, but the process is still
>> easier than typing in the whole path, especially if you use cloud
>> storage, which buries your files pretty deeply under your home
>> directory.
>> 
>> Alternatively, run LyX under Linux in a Parallels VM — it’s quite a bit
>> faster than the MacOS universal binary and doesn’t suffer from this bug.
> [...]
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