Show compiled document under /tmp

[Eckhard Höffner]

Am 03.12.24 um 18:08 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck:
> On 12/2/24 3:26 PM, Eckhard Höffner wrote:
>>
>> Am 02.12.24 um 21:13 schrieb Paul Rubin:
>>>
>>> On 12/2/24 11:35, Eckhard Höffner wrote:
>>>> I don't have problems with the pdf file located in /tmp. It is just 
>>>> the button with the two eyes (Ctrl + R). It used to open the pdf 
>>>> file in /tmp in okular (in my case). This does currently not work.  
>>>> I assume this is related to changes to KDE (debian testing). Maybe 
>>>> it'll be fixed within the next days.
>>> And the viewer setting still lists okular as the viewer? I just 
>>> discovered that, for whatever reason, the viewer for pdflatex was 
>>> set to xreader (correct) and the viewer for all other PDF formats 
>>> was set to evince (which I don't use).
>>
>> It was empty. Now I have chosen
>>
>> okular --unique "$$o#src:$$n $$f"
>>
>> from a drop down menu. It still doesn't work. I also don't understand 
>> "$$o#src:$$n $$f"
>
> You're looking in the wrong place, I think. That string is in the 
> Output section and has to do with forward search (the ability to jump 
> to locations in the PDF corresponding to ones in the LyX file). You 
> want to look under File Handling> File Formats, and then choose PDF 
> (pdflatex) at the top. Is a viewer selected there?
>
> You might also try running LyX from a terminal with "lyx -dbg files". 
> It's possible you will get some kind of error message. You should see 
> something like:
>
> Format.cpp (706): Executing command: okular "file.pdf"
>
> after compilation completes.


Thank you. There was no special viewer selected, just xdg-open. This 
doesn't work any more. After having selected okular everything is fine.

-- 
Eckhard