Lyx wont print

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Jan 19 15:11:51 UTC 2007


Paul Clark wrote:


>> Run lyx from a command line (konsole, gnome-terminal, etc), and it should
>> spew out the nitty-gritty details of what is going on behind the scenes
>> (in
>> particular, most of the (la)tex runs).  Hopefully, that will give a clue.

> I ran it from the gnome-terminal. Not a single message comes out on
> start up or while trying to print.

I found I could reproduce the problem, if the directory containing the .lyx
document is not writable.  Why?  lyx runs latex behind the scenes, which
needs to create intermediate <file>.(aux|log|dvi|ps|pdf) files in the same
directory as the open .lyx document.

-- Rex




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