"R. Lahaye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| So, is the following the correct conclusion?
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| View->Update->Blabla, should take care that the corresponding
| blabla-file in LyX-tmp directory is regenerated, if necessary.
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| It's then left up to the blabla-viewer, whether that will
| recognize the touched file and update its contents.
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| If the blabla-file is NOT regenerated, then this is a bug in LyX.
| If the blabla-file IS regenerated, but not updated in the viewer,
| then this is entirely the problem of the viewer.
| Correct?
Yes.
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| Assuming I'm correct, I can now try to solve the Update->Postscript viewing:
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| Adding "-watch" to my gv viewer, solved the Update->Postscript viewing.
| So it's a gv-problem. Apparently my gv does not automatically watch
| the file, whereas it does on someone else's system.
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| This must be related to the (default) setting of the GV.watchFile variable,
| either system wide (in e.g. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/GV) or user
| defined (in ~/.gv). In my case this is set to "False" system wide (FreeBSD).
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| However, we shouldn't and don't have to rely on this setting: just enforce
| that gv is always properly updating by adding the "-watch" flag to the gv
| Viewer command in lib/configure.m4. PATCH ATTACHED.
Since this behaviour is not a regression from 1.1.5 or 1.1.6 I do not
want to apply this patch now. I want it in 1.3.0 though.
| Question: "gv" has a "-watch" flag. I don't know about "ghostview",
| but I suppose their behaviours are almost identical, aren't they?
In regard to this I do not know.
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Lgb
