Christopher Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is perhaps a stretch. But a while back I asked if there were plans to
> support having documents open in multiple panes (I'm excited about this
> feature!). It occurs to me that perhaps the same feature could be extended to
> include showing another application in a pane? Something like the docked apps
> that many WMs support?
>
> The reason: I often add bib entries as I write. I often forget the keys.
> Consequently, I have to keep an editor open along with LyX. But I like LyX to
> be full-screen. So I have to make a little space, hang the editor barely
> over the edge of LyX, and switch between. I just gets plain awkward, and it
> clutters up my desktop!
>
> So many bib editors work 'seamlessly' with LyX... providing facility for
> extending LyX's interface 'seamlessly' makes sense. And I imagine it would be
> useful for other, non bib-related applications, which I haven't discovered I
> need yet.
>
> Just a thought-- I can guess that it would be complicated to do, and there
> might not seem to be a great need for it. It simply would be nice, adding to
> the flexibility of an already superb piece of software!
Here's another way if you're on Linux:
Install a window manager that supports multiple desktops, like icewm
plus its configuration tool icepref. You can have, for example,
tkbibtex (which supports the .lyxpipe) on one desktop by default, LyX
on a second, and switch by a key combination between the two
desktops. You don't even have to copy and paste a bibliograhy entry
from tkbibtex, just hit the "c" key to have it inserted into LyX on
the other desktop, or wherever it's running.
The .lypipe (check your ~/.lyx/lyxrc file to activate it) is
definitely one of my favourite features!
--
Andre Berger [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
