On Fri, 27 Aug 2021, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Do you by any chance have instant preview turned on in Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > Display.
Paul, Huh! It was turned on, but I've no recollection of ever doing this. And, as I wrote, it's never before been an issue. So I turned it off.
The presence of "preview" in the file name suggests to me that LyX might have been compiling something for instant preview.
Could be. I opened LyX, looked in preferences (but not Display), exited, then found Display and turned off instant preview. There were to *.tex files using the CPUs after I exited the second time. Killed both processes.
As far as the undead process, if LyX spawns a latex / pdflatex / whatever process to compile something and then you kill LyX, the child process does not get killed automatically (at least in my experience). You have to nuke it manually. I would expect the lyxpreviewN17596.tex file to be stashed in the LyX temporary directory for the parent document.
If yesterday's files were in /tmp find should have found them. It didn't. Anyway, however the instant preview became active it's now off. Must be pandemic related, eh? :-) Stay well, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
