On Wednesday 30 October 2002 8:14 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:10:28PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > In the end of the bug discussion, I also suggested a button > > on the toolbar that indicates that lyx has child processes > > running, and when you click on this you'll open the > > view->child processes dialog.. > > You can already do this. We don't want it by default (I want > to remove forks dialog altogether, lyx is not top and it is > not ps)
Hello, Christian. The problem is that we do not (yet?) fork the latex process but execute a system call that blocks lyx. I think that the current scheme is just asking for problems as it makes us hostage to some external code over which we have no control. Expect this to change in the future. Angus (who likes that dialog ;-)
