Thanks for your reply Pavel, I've actually managed to get this working now. But I'm still not sure if there really was a bug or just me doing something wrong. I'll have a look at the dev-list archives.
Matts On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: > Matts Lindström wrote: >> Hello again, I've looked some more into this. I still can't get DVI >> reverse search configured under linux. These are the results: >> >> The following works with LyX 1.6.1 on my Mac OS X machine: >> >> echo "LYXCMD:clientid:server-goto-file-row:filenameandpath.lyx 43" > >> .lyxpipe.in >> >> (moves the cursor, just like it should to row 43 in the open lyx-document) >> >> Under Linux (LyX 1.6.1) it won't. Instead of moving to the correct >> line the cursor keeps jumping to the first line. Is this as bug in the >> Linux version or am I doing something wrong? I've tried piping other >> commands than "server-goto-file-row" and these seem to work without >> problems. > > there has been discussion exactly about this on devel list and some work > should > appear in the forthcomming 1.6.3. if you are able to compile lyx for yourself > try to buid the current 1.6 branch and report problems back (directly to > devlist). > > thanks > pavel >