On 5/29/07, Prof. J. E. Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using 'SAGE Version 2.5.3, Release Date: 2007-05-22' > on a linux system. > > When I do view(s) the window flashes up on screen for a split second and > then disappears. As I'm a relative novice I cannot say if it used to > work, but I certainly have xdvi, kdvi etc working normally.
If you type "view??" you can see the source code for the view command, which is in sage/misc/latex.py It just uses xdvi. There is probably some sort of new library conflict or something. To help debug this, could you try starting sage, then navigating to a dvi file (yes, use cd just like in bash), then type sage: !xdvi filename.dvi and let me know what happens. ------- I wrote the following, but realized that it doesn't apply. I'll leave it in case it is of interest. There was a recent change to the browser() command to use xdg-open (http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0) which is supposed to be the standard Linux command for opening all file types, which respects your customizations, etc. Unfortunately, it seems to not be working for you. Could you try using xdg-open from the command line on a dvi file and let me know what happens. Unfortunately, in the current version of SAGE if xdg-open exists it will be used. You could try either fixing it to work, removing it, or replacing it by something better. If you don't like any of those options, another is that I'll modify devel/sage/sage/misc/viewer.py to use whatever program is specified by the variable SAGE_BROWSER, if that environment variable is defined. Another option is that you could also do the following in SAGE: import sage.misc.viewer sage.misc.viewer.DVI_VIEWER = "xdvi" to set the dvi viewer. You could put this in $HOME/.sage/init.sage so it happens every time you start SAGE. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-forum URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
