Importing files: Some file types (.tex, .odt) only show up under "All files"

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Tobias,

Gruss aus dem Süden :-)-O

Insert -> File does something different from Import -> File  :-)-O

"Subdocument" translates to "Child Document..." in LyX parlance.

Perhaps you can circumvent your issue by leaving the TeX material as 
child document :-)-O. You can do quite cool stuff by generating TeX at 
runtime (Makefile) 

mfg, el

On 25/02/2020 13:57, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
> Thank you for your response!
> I did what you suggested and found the following:
> 
> Reconfigure changes nothing with respect to the problem under
> consideration.
> However, I tried Insert -> File -> Subdocument (?  Translation of
> "Unterdokument") -> Search in Folder ("Durchsuchen"), and here the
> menu choice LaTeX/LyX-Documents shows .tex and .lyx files only, as it
> should be!
> So there is a difference in the routine calling a file type when using
> File -> Import -> LaTeX (plain) and Insert -> File -> Subdocument ->
> Search in Folder?
> Thankful for any helpful hints
> Tobias Hilbricht
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