Opening documents from a link in Libreoffice (OSX Bug?)

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 3/1/24 05:32, Daniel CLEMENT via lyx-users wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using LyX 2.3.7 under the latest MacOS.
>
> I have a Libreoffice spreadsheet with many links to LyX documents. When I click on such a link, it does launch LyX and the associated document. But several functions (Python-related, I guess) are missing: shortcuts and (more importantly) lyx2lyx.
>
> Granted, if I open a document from a link, it’s just to have a quick look, not for heavy editing. But if the document is old, lyx2lyx fails and the file just won’t open (whereas it opens quite nicely if I open it from within LyX). I hope I’m being clear…
>
> IIRC this issue was not present under Linux. Nor does it happen with other file types than LyX.
>
> I don’t know what to think. I’m not even sure it has to do with LyX (maybe Libreoffice trying to enforce its own Python flavour?), but I thought as well to report it.

It probably does have something to do with the environment under which 
LyX is running in this case. I'm cc'ing our Mac person.

Riki