Show compiled document under /tmp

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 12/3/24 12:50 PM, Eckhard Höffner wrote:
>
> 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.

Glad to hear it. We have had very mixed results with xdg-open.

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