On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 1:34 PM Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/28/19 12:50 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:00 AM Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 2/28/19 10:39 AM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:36 AM Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >> Interesting. What version of Qt do you use (4.8.7 here), and what
> >> desktop environment for Sarah (MATE here)? Did you compile LyX yourself
> >> or get a binary somewhere?
> > The desktop environment is Cinnamon. But it's not Cinnamon vs.
> > MATE--I just logged into MATE and it's got the same issue here.
> Does your file dialog look the same in MATE, or does it look like mine?
> In particular, in MATE does the file filter ("Files of type:") show the
> full details ("LaTeX (plain) (*.tex)")?
> >
No, I am having the same problem regardless of the desktop
environment. MATE and Cinnamon both show an empty window and no .tex
files are visible until I select "All files".
> I wonder if this could be a MIME-type issue? If you go to the relevant
> directory in your file manager (Caja in my case), right click one of the
> .tex files and click on "Properties", what type is it? On my system, the
> MIME type is "TeX document (text/x-tex)".
No, the MIME type is correct (same as yours)--.tex files are TeX documents.
