On 13/06/2010 00:27, Jose Quesada wrote:
Thanks Paul,
It makes me sad when I face situations like this. LyX is a great tool,
that should work well under linux (open source, qt, etc).
Actually, LyX have been must faster on Windows than on Linux for a few
years now. This is probably because most of developers interested in
metrics and drawing stuff were on Windows. Probably also because Qt is
faster under Windows.
But what I
find is the contrary. Obscure bug that I have no time to track (I know
first hand this could be a time sink, going down the rabbit hole...).
Not so obscure, it's obviously related to the outline pane. This pane
uses Qt a lot as opposed to the LyX working area. IIIRC there was some
performance fixes in 1.6.5 or 1.6.6 related to Qt4.4 or something.
Ubuntu version is pretty out-of-date (1.6.4). Looks like for this
deadline I'll have to use plain latex, and hope somehow an update will
fix the problem.
First thing is to upgrade your Qt and LyX version. LyX-1.6.5 with Qt4.6
(unbuntu 10.04) works fine. If you don't feel like upgrading your
system, there's always the option of compiling the latest LyX yourself,
it's not very hard. You don't even have to compile Qt, you can download
a precompiled SDK for Linux in Nokia's web site. Of course the whole
process takes time but compiling LyX on your system won't take much,
maybe 10 to 20 minutes.
Abdel.
