On Tuesday 06 May 2008 10:33, jos wrote: > Typing has become painfully slow after I upgraded from lyx-1.4.4 to > lyx-1.5.3 on a machine with fedora core 6: there's a very annoying delay > between a keystroke and the appearance of the corresponding symbol on the > screen. > > Because a rpm of lyx-1.5.4 is not available for fedora 6, I tried to create > my own rpm from the lyx-1.5.4 sources (as described, a bit chaotically, > here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/CreatingLyXRPM). > However, I can't seem to get configure to understand where my qt4 libraries > are: > adding --with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4 to the configure command in the spec > file, or setting the environment variables QTLIB or QT4LIB to /usr/lib/qt4 > doesn't help. > > Does anyone have an idea how to: > - either get rid of the annoying typing delay in lyx-1.5.3 > - or what is wrong with my qt4 > ($ rpm -q qt4 > qt4-4.3.2-1.fc6)
Hi Jos, I feel your pain. I had similar problems a few months ago, and some list members helped me through the qt4 problems. See this for a synopsis: http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm As far as 1.5.3, I'm running a self-compiled (not from a package) LyX-1.5.3 on my Mandriva 2007 equipped Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB RAM and plenty of disk space, and I have no latency between keypress and letter appearing. Maybe the fedora package is wrong, or maybe you have less RAM than I do. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
