On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:09 AM Dr Eberhard Lisse <nos...@lisse.na> wrote:
> Why on Earth would one want to run LyX on the Mac in a Virtual > Machine using linux which runs LyX in X-WIndows or whatnot????? > > Other than exploring the limits? Oh gosh, yes, how on earth could it be that someone has good reasons for doing something that you haven't thought of? :-) In fact, however, I mentioned one of the main reasons in my original email, viz., that LyX runs so well under Linux, better in fact than it does under MacOS, at the moment anyway. Here are two specifics for you: 1. LyX 2.3.1 for MacOS currently suffers from a very annoying bug that prevents boldface fonts from rendering inside the app. So any use of bold — in a heading, subheading, etc or for emphasis or for use in mathmode doesn't show up, often forcing one often to check whether one has actually formatted the text in question as bold or not. (The formatting does show up correctly in LyX-generated PDFs.) 2. LyX is lightning fast under Linux, even in a VM, much faster than the MacOS version on my 2014 iMac. Documents simply compile and display more quickly. But a particularly dramatic case of this is forward search. For some reason, in LyX 2.3.1 for MacOS on my iMac, the first use of forward search takes 5-10 seconds before my PDF viewer (Skim) finds the corresponding spot in the document. Subsequent searches are faster, but still laggy. Under Linux they are nearly instantaneous. So just those two alone make using LyX under Linux in a VM much more enjoyable. Additionally, the integration with MacOS is superb — I have a full screen KDE environment running in its own desktop (which is how I like to work anyway, with related tasks clustered in their own desktops) and, by means of symbolic links, I have complete access to my MacOS file system, so that I can edit exactly the same file in either MacOS or Linux; the experience is utterly seamless. Finally, and not incidentally, since I have been using Linux since 1996 (mostly just as a server for the last ten years), it's an environment I'm extremely comfortable in. One final note, re "X-Windows or what not". The X Window System is simply the standard windowing system/display server for Linux and most other unix systems. MacOS has one, too; it's called the Quartz Compositor. So does Windows; it's called the Desktop Window Manager. Cheers! -chris On 2018-11-01 20:04 , Chris Menzel wrote: > > Problem solved! I upgraded to KDE Plasma version 5.14.2 (via the > > backports PPA) and LyX 2.3.1 and that solved the problem. (Not sure > > if either of itself would have done the job.) Thanks again to the LyX > > (and KDE) developers. > > > > Chris Menzel > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 12:07 PM Chris Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Dear Lyx folk, > > > > I've just installed Parallels on my iMac in part because LyX runs > > so well under Linux and Parallels creates very robust virtual > > machines (indeed, some things in Linux (like trackpad gestures) > > work *better* in a Parallels VM). LyX looks fantastic running > > natively on my (hi-res) iMac (the current problems with boldface > > notwithstanding) and running natively on my Dell laptop under > > Linux. But for some reason, when I run it under Linux in a > > Parallels VM on my iMac, I'm not getting any font smoothing; > > screen fonts are jaggy and pixelated. All other Linux apps looks > > great in the VM, including those using the same screen font. I've > > attached a couple of screensgrabs to illustrate the problem, one > > showing the lack of font smoothing in LyX and another showing how > > the same font looks in all other Linux apps. Is this a known > > issue? And, if so, is there a fix? I haven't turned up anything > > after a lot of googling. > > > > Thanks for any ideas here. > > > > Chris Menzel >
