Sven Hoexter wrote (Friday 24 September 2010):
In theory the reconfigure script should store its values in
~/.lyx/lyxrc.defaults
Could you please check the differences there for the cases when it works
and doesn't work?
I've attached the file. I've checked, and it's identical before I run
Reconfigure (PDF export options not available) and after I run Reconfigure (PDF
export options now available). It also does seem to have some entries for
export to PDF.
I've also attached my preferences file, because it also contains some settings
for viewing PDFs. Possible relevant, I'm not sure.
Honestly, I've currently no good idea what could be wrong. Can I assume
that your $HOME is on a real local filesystem and you're not running some
strange syncronisation tool that maybe detects a modification and syncs
back an old version or something similar weird?
You can assume that, yes. My home is on the local FS, and I'm not doing
anything that would be overwriting the files. Just bog-standard local ext3,
that's all. The modification time of lyxrc.defaults updates when I run
reconfigure, as you would expect, so it is saving the file. But the contents
don't change.
Peace,
Brendon
# This file has been automatically generated by LyX' lib/configure.py
# script. It contains default settings that have been determined by
# examining your system. PLEASE DO NOT MODIFY ANYTHING HERE! If you
# want to customize LyX, use LyX' Preferences dialog or modify directly
# the preferences file instead. Any setting in that file will
# override the values given here.
\converter latex dvilatexlatex
\Format tgif obj Tgifauto auto vector
\Format figfig FIG auto auto vector
\Format diadia DIA auto auto vector
\Format agragr Grace auto auto vector
\Format fenfen FEN auto auto
\Format svgsvg SVG inkscape inkscape
vector
\Format bmpbmp BMP xdg-open gimp
\Format gifgif GIF xdg-open gimp
\Format jpgjpg JPEGxdg-open gimp
\Format pbmpbm PBM xdg-open gimp
\Format pgmpgm PGM xdg-open gimp
\Format pngpng PNG xdg-open gimp
\Format ppmppm PPM xdg-open gimp
\Format tiff tif TIFFxdg-open gimp
\Format xbmxbm XBM xdg-open gimp
\Format xpmxpm XPM xdg-open gimp
\Format asciichess ascPlain text (chess output)
sensible-editor
\Format asciiimage ascPlain text (image)
sensible-editor
\Format asciixfig ascPlain text (Xfig output)
sensible-editor
\Format dateouttmpdate (output) sensible-editor
\Format docbooksgmlDocBookB sensible-editor
document
\Format docbook-xml xml Docbook (XML) sensible-editor
document
\Format dotdotGraphviz Dotsensible-editor
vector
\Format platex texLaTeX (pLaTeX) sensible-editor
document
\Format literate nw NoWeb N sensible-editor
document
\Format lilypond ly LilyPond music sensible-editor
vector
\Format latex texLaTeX (plain) L sensible-editor
document
\Format pdflatex texLaTeX (pdflatex)sensible-editor
document
\Format text txtPlain texta sensible-editor
document
\Format text2 txtPlain text (pstotext) sensible-editor
document
\Format text3 txtPlain text (ps2ascii) sensible-editor
document
\Format text4 txtPlain text (catdvi) sensible-editor
document
\Format textparagraph txt Plain Text, Join Lines
sensible-editor document
\Format bibtex bibBibTeX sensible-editor
\Format epseps EPS xdg-open vector
\Format ps ps Postscript t xdg-open
document,vector
\Format pdfpdfPDF (ps2pdf) P xdg-open
document,vector
\Format pdf2 pdfPDF (pdflatex)F xdg-open
document,vector
\Format pdf3 pdfPDF (dvipdfm) m xdg-open
document,vector
\Format dvidvi DVID xdg-open
document,vector
\Format html htmlHTML H xdg-open
document
\Format noteedit not Noteeditauto auto vector
\Format odtodt OpenDocumentxdg-open xdg-open
document,vector
\Format datedate command
