Enrico Forestieri wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:43:36PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote:
> 
>> Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
>> 
>> > I did some debugging. The problem lies in the use of
>> > QProcess::startDetached. If you call this function with a the "cmd"
>> > prefix, you will inevitably get a command window.
>> 
>> So in some sense it does what it is told to do;-)
> 
> This is new to me. On Vista I see no command window. This must be
> a novelty of newer Windows version.

Strange. Maybe this also depends on the used qt version?

>> > Omitting the "cmd" could be a solution. Does it have any use to add the
>> > latexEnvCmdPrefix to a viewer command ?
>> 
>> This looks rather wrong to me. This should only be added when running a
>> TeX related converter, e.g. LaTeX, BibTeX etc.
> 
> No, all enviroment variables should be correctly made available to all
> subprocesses, and (thanks to QProcess) this is the only way we have to
> modify the environment.

I admit I did not think of xdvi, which might need to fetch stuff from other 
places, because the DVI file may contain references.


Georg

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