Helge Hafting wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> When LyX launches a viewer, it just tells the OS "open this file". We >> do not know what the viewer is. >> > On linux, we know that very well. The viewer is specified in > .lyx/prefences, a file created and maintained by lyx.
This will be changed to use a similar mechanism as on windows and OS X. Then we do not know it on linux either. The best way IMO is to have the windows installer install the wrapper scripts as the system pdf viewer if that viewer is acroread. They are not only useful with LyX. Georg