"R. Lahaye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Lars Gullik Bjønnes writes:
>>
>> John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> | On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:41:00AM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have to add manually "-watch" to the viewer in Preferences,
>> >> but isn't sending the HUP signal what LyX supposed to do?
>> >
>> | I can't find any evidence that we do/did that. I don't know
>> | what broke or when :/
>>
>> No we never did that. This is not a regression.
>>
>> Update->DVI and Update->Postscript both work fine for me.
>
| If there's no signal sent, then what is supposed to be the actual
| update-trick? Maybe that can help find the culprit.
xdvi and gv watch the file to see if it changes. then reloads.
note that xdvi somethings needs some "event" f.ex. getting focus to
update, and gv needs some time.
| Or does it depend on the viewer and/or its version?
| Different people seem to struggle with different update problems.
| Some don't have the dvi-update, others don't have the PS-update.
>
| For example in my case:
| DVI viewer command = "xdvi" (xdvi version 22.05d-k)
| Postscript viewer command = "gv -swap" (gv version 3.5.8)
>
| xdvi updates, but gv doesn't;
| for Kayvan it appears to be the reverse!
for me both updates.
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Lgb
