Timeline for How to change LyX pdf viewer?
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| Oct 10, 2018 at 10:03 | comment | added | Paul Rougieux | An answer to the question of changing the PDF viewer is provided under the question LyX: change PDF viewer "Go to Tools / Preferences / File Handling / File Formats. Choose the file format PDF (pdflatex). Change viewer to evince" | |
| Mar 11, 2017 at 3:03 | vote | accept | fish_dots | ||
| Mar 10, 2017 at 6:57 | answer | added | scottkosty | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 3:03 | comment | added | fish_dots | Uninstalled xpdf and reconfigured Lyx. Now Lyx doesn't have the option of viewing a pdf. I can still use export to create a pdf. | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 21:08 | comment | added | scottkosty | Strange. I'm not sure what's going on. You could try the following: temporarily uninstall Xpdf, then reconfigure in LyX. Does it work now? Then you can reinstall Xpdf as long as you don't reconfigure in LyX. I just checked and actually it's strange that LyX doesn't use xreader, because in LyX's configure script, xreader is preferred to xpdf. So LyX might just have trouble finding it for some reason. | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 2:49 | comment | added | fish_dots | That doesn't fix it. Even after I reconfigure (previous attempts, not this one), it still shows xreader as the custom option for the viewer. There is only 'none' and 'custom' as options for the viewer. | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 7:25 | comment | added | scottkosty | Change the reader in Tools > Preferences > File Handling > File Formats > Viewer. Click on "save". Restart LyX. Do not reconfigure. It is possible that restores the default viewer. Does that work? | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 6:42 | comment | added | fish_dots | I tried all the pdf options (pdflatex, xetex, luatex, etc), and they all used xpdf. How would I go about changing the viewer for specific formats? | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 6:17 | comment | added | scottkosty | What exactly did you try? Do you know what flavor (e.g. pdflatex, xelatex), is being used when you click on the eyes button? If so, you need to change the viewer for that specific format. | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 5:57 | history | edited | CarLaTeX | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Corrected spelling and tag |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 5:55 | history | edited | fish_dots | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 138 characters in body |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 5:32 | history | asked | fish_dots | CC BY-SA 3.0 |