Re: Love the new LyXLauncher
On Monday 02 July 2007 16:54, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Paul A. Rubin schrieb: > > Just a thank you note to the developers in general for the new version > > and, particularly, to whoever came up with LyXLauncher.exe for Windows. > > Many thanks. I wrote this program with the help of Martin Rauscher. > > regards Uwe You know what's great about free software? The guys you talk to every day on the mailing list are authors of high quality software. Being on a free software list, you get to rub elbows with the best and brightest. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: Figure caption macro
Lyx user writes:
>
> I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace every instance of
>
> \caption{Short. Long long long long.}
>
> with
>
> \caption[Short]{Short. Long long long long.}
>
> However, I am not too familiar with LaTeX and TeX commands. Specifically, I
> don't know how to extract the text before the '.' character. After that I
> think
> a macro and \renewcommand would finish the job. Can anyone help me?
Sure. Put the following in the preamble:
\let\oldcaption\caption
\def\takeshort#1.#2\next{\gdef\short{#1}\gdef\everything{#1.#2}}
\def\caption#1{\takeshort#1\next\oldcaption[\short]{\everything}}
--
Enrico
Re: how to use a new style/ class file with Lyx document
Tariq Abdullah wrote: I am working in WinXP environment. I only have .cls or .sty file from the conference organizers (for one conference .cls file and for other .sty file). I am unable to find a way to use the .cls or .sty file with my Lyx document. any help??? Help -> Customization, Chapter 5. /Paul
Figure caption macro
I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace every instance of
\caption{Short. Long long long long.}
with
\caption[Short]{Short. Long long long long.}
However, I am not too familiar with LaTeX and TeX commands. Specifically, I
don't know how to extract the text before the '.' character. After that I think
a macro and \renewcommand would finish the job. Can anyone help me?
Thank you.
Re: legend at side of figure
Am Montag, 2. Juli 2007 13:50 schrieb Uwe Stöhr:
> Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb:
> >> This is described in section 3.7 or 3.8 in the EmbeddedObjects manual.
> >
> > I did not mean text floating around a figure. It's IN a float environment
>
> Yes, I mean that too. It's described in section "Caption Placement". (The
> package "sidecap")
>
> regards Uwe
sorry, Uwe,
working with 1.4.3 I checked
Hilfe > Handbuchergänzungen
and > Anpassung
not realizing that the
EmbeddedObjects
is a separate document
(in 1.4.3).
so its
\usepackage{sidecaps}
Thanks for your help and patience
Wolfgang
Re: Love the new LyXLauncher
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Just a thank you note to the developers in general for the new version and, particularly, to whoever came up with LyXLauncher.exe for Windows. Many thanks. I wrote this program with the help of Martin Rauscher. regards Uwe
Re: Really s-l-o-w configuration of rc2 on XP
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: I didn't need to reset it -- it was still set to 'no' after installation. Does the installer automatically reset it to its previous value? Not that I know. I just checked my LaTeX configuration page in LyX. It shows a number of missing document classes (none of which I use) in section 4, but every font package (section 2), every standard document class (section 3) and every "other" package (section 7) are marked present, Fine, so all packages needed by LyX are present. Once they are present configure runs very fast. The installer informs you about the long time for the first configuration, therefore also a console Windows is shown, showing you the efforts. The missing classes in section 4 are non-free classes that are therefore not on MiKTeX's package repository. So latex should have failed on the test documents using missing classes without any attempt to go to the Internet. There won't be a fail, the configure script still prints out if a package could be found or not. No, but if the installer is compiling a test document looking for abc.sty and abc.sty is not installed (and MikTeX is set to "no"), latex will report an error compiling the file (this is what I meant by "failed") and the configuration script interprets the error as package not installed. The installer doesn't compile anything, it only installs LyX. When LyX is started the first time, its job is over. Setting the package installation to "no" is your personal decision, so you know know what you are doing. There is also no error: configure asks LaTeX for a package and MiKTeX returns just "no" and onfigure interprets this as not installed. So this is the expected behaviour. Incidentally, when the installer ran the configuration script, some packages got a 'yes', some got a 'no', and some got neither one -- the space where 'yes' or 'no' should be was just blank. It didn't seem to bother the configuration script, so I did not mention it before. When you see "..." instead of yes or no, MiKTeX is trying to download and instll this package. For the future, I vote for letting the user, not the installer, decide about on-the-fly installation. It's not just a matter of the time and bandwidth. I'm installing on a laptop with a fairly modest hard drive, and while I currently have space for all those packages (many of which I will not use in this lifetime), down the road I may end up having to uninstall some to free space. Then just don't open an internet connection. Automatic package installation is needed for average users that don't know anything about LaTeX-packages and its handling, and that is the majority. You see this from the many posts to this list where people asking why some features are not working for them. This way it is assured that everybody uses a working installation with all LyX features enabled. (With the basic packages deliverd by MiKTeX you cannot fully use LyX.) You are an experienced user so you can decide what you want. Actually, given the problems some users have when installing with no Internet connection or an unfortunate choice of repository, Then the result will be the same as setting to "no". There was a bug in this field which we could fix some months ago, so these problems are gone. regards Uwe
Re: Really s-l-o-w configuration of rc2 on XP
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Actually, given the problems some users have when installing with no Internet connection or an unfortunate choice of repository, my vote would be for the installer to set MikTeX to 'no' (and reset to the user's setting afterward). Or at least give the user a choice about this? (I agree that it'd be very frustrating) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: List problem
Nick and Anne Hopton wrote: I suffering some minor pain with a list problem. This happens when someone posts using not the list submission address (lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) but posts a reply to the original sender, with a cc. to the list. At my end, this causes postings to the list to be routed to the wrong mail box and in addition it means that if I try and reply to the list the wrong address is inserted in the 'To:' field. Is anyone else having this problem at present? Regards, Nick. You appear to be using Thunderbird 1.5.X on Windows, if when you define/edit the lyx filter, you set the pull down to "To or cc" instead of just "To", you should be happier. Good luck. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
Re: Bibtex
I am trying to insert a bibtex file in lyx (im using v1.5.0 on linux)...everything seems fine except that in the pdf/dvi/ps files...there is no reference at the end and also, the citations in the text comes up as a question mark..how can I fix this? Could you please send in a minimal example file? Bo
Bibtex
Dear Sir/Madam, I am trying to insert a bibtex file in lyx (im using v1.5.0 on linux)...everything seems fine except that in the pdf/dvi/ps files...there is no reference at the end and also, the citations in the text comes up as a question mark..how can I fix this? Cheers Panie
Re: float error
Hello Robert, it happens because you have the float in a "description" list (with the command "item"). If you go before the gray cell with the word "mobile" and you set the paragraph as "standard" the problem should disappear. Francesco - Original Message - From: "Robert Poser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 7:02 PM Subject: float error minimal example with just a floating image, causing the error message. Robert ___ Jetzt neu! Schützen Sie Ihren PC mit McAfee und WEB.DE. 3 Monate kostenlos testen. http://www.pc-sicherheit.web.de/startseite/?mc=00
Converting to OpenOffice-->Word with htlatex/oolatex
Does anyone have recent experience with conversion from Lyx to Word via htlatex/oolatex? It used to work very well for me in the past, but now I cannot get OpenOffice to open the file produced by htlatex. My procedure: 1. Export from Lyx to plain Latex 2. Run mk4ht oolatex myfile 3. open the resulting .sxw in OpenOffice Here I stop. OpenOffice refuses to open the .sxw file complaining about an error in the xml subdocument. The exact OpenOffice error message is: Read-Error Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at 1034,4 (row,col) Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Stefano __ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (64) 9 373-7599 x83940 University Of Auckland Fax: (64) 9 373-8768 Private Bag 92019 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Auckland New Zealand
float error
minimal example with just a floating image, causing the error message. Robert ___ Jetzt neu! Schützen Sie Ihren PC mit McAfee und WEB.DE. 3 Monate kostenlos testen. http://www.pc-sicherheit.web.de/startseite/?mc=00 newfile1.lyx Description: Binary data
how to use a new style/ class file with Lyx document
Hi, I am working in WinXP environment. I only have .cls or .sty file from the conference organizers (for one conference .cls file and for other .sty file). I am unable to find a way to use the .cls or .sty file with my Lyx document. any help??? Regards, Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting
Re: Different font size for captions
Alexander Sklar wrote: Hello all, is there a way to set a font size for figure/table captions different to that for regular text ? Probably the easiest way is to use the caption package. You can set a default size for all captions, or you can insert some ERT in a particular float to alter the caption for just that float. /Paul
Love the new LyXLauncher
Just a thank you note to the developers in general for the new version and, particularly, to whoever came up with LyXLauncher.exe for Windows. I use a firewall that checks apps for changes before allowing them to launch, so the previous system of creating a .tmp file to launch LyX resulted in the firewall asking for a blessing before allow LyX to start. (For those of you in the US who have seen the TV commercial for Macs where the Windows character has a security guy leaning over his shoulder, that's what I was going through.) The solution was to run lyxc directly, but with the new launcher (which does not change) I can bless it once and be done with it. So thanks! /Paul
Re: Really s-l-o-w configuration of rc2 on XP
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I can't test this without uninstalling/reinstalling LyX. When I run reconfigure from inside LyX, it either does not look for all the missing LaTeX packages or else does so by a method other than trying to compile a test document using that class. No, it doesn't matter from where you run the script. When the "Install missing packages on the fly" option is set to "ask me" or "yes", MiKTeX will get active. That used to be true, but I just ran reconfigure from inside rc2 (twice, in fact) with MikTeX set to "ask me", and I got no pop-ups from MikTeX. It only took 10 seconds. Please note, though, that when I ran the installer I had MikTeX's "Install missing packages on-the-fly" option set to 'No'. The installer sets it back to "yes" while installing to assure that the first configuration installs all packages needed by LyX. You can reset this later. I didn't need to reset it -- it was still set to 'no' after installation. Does the installer automatically reset it to its previous value? I just checked my LaTeX configuration page in LyX. It shows a number of missing document classes (none of which I use) in section 4, but every font package (section 2), every standard document class (section 3) and every "other" package (section 7) are marked present, and I know I did not have all those installed before installing rc2. So I guess MikTeX really was operating in automatic-install mode (even though I looked at the setting _while the script was running_ and it said 'no'), and that must account for the delay. Given the number of packages it must have installed, the script's run time would not be unusual. So latex should have failed on the test documents using missing classes without any attempt to go to the Internet. There won't be a fail, the configure script still prints out if a package could be found or not. No, but if the installer is compiling a test document looking for abc.sty and abc.sty is not installed (and MikTeX is set to "no"), latex will report an error compiling the file (this is what I meant by "failed") and the configuration script interprets the error as package not installed. Incidentally, when the installer ran the configuration script, some packages got a 'yes', some got a 'no', and some got neither one -- the space where 'yes' or 'no' should be was just blank. It didn't seem to bother the configuration script, so I did not mention it before. For the future, I vote for letting the user, not the installer, decide about on-the-fly installation. It's not just a matter of the time and bandwidth. I'm installing on a laptop with a fairly modest hard drive, and while I currently have space for all those packages (many of which I will not use in this lifetime), down the road I may end up having to uninstall some to free space. Actually, given the problems some users have when installing with no Internet connection or an unfortunate choice of repository, my vote would be for the installer to set MikTeX to 'no' (and reset to the user's setting afterward). Any functional MikTeX installation should have basic classes such as article installed. I think it's less painful to have the installer display a message (or have LyX open up with a default message) explaining that the user may need to install additional packages than to have the installation script risk connection problems by automatically installing things. Incidentally, in case I forgot to mention it in the first message, thanks as always for providing the Windows compilations and installers. Cheers, Paul
Re: multiple windows
Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi all. Is it possible to open multiple documents in differnt windows displayed simultaneously in LyX < 1.5? Thanks - SB Yes, but how depends on what you mean by "displayed simultaneously". You can open multiple documents in one copy of LyX 1.4.x and navigate between them. In 1.4.4, at the bottom of the View menu are links to each open document; in earlier versions, you had the same option but possibly in a different part of the menu. What you cannot do in one copy of 1.4.x is display two versions side by side. (When you switch to one document, the other one disappears from the GUI.) To actually view two documents side by side, open them in separate instances of LyX. (You can have multiple instances running at the same time.) HTH, Paul
Help with ref style
Does anyone know which reference style compatible with NatBib is closer to the example below? Fodor, J., 1998: In Critical Condition, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. Thanks, Stefano __ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (64) 9 373-7599 x83940 University Of Auckland Fax: (64) 9 373-8768 Private Bag 92019 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Auckland New Zealand
Re: List problem
On Monday 02 July 2007 10:41, Nick and Anne Hopton wrote: > I suffering some minor pain with a list problem. This happens when > someone posts using not the list submission address > (lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) but posts a reply to the original sender, with > a cc. to the list. At my end, this causes postings to the list to be > routed to the wrong mail box My email filter sends it to the LyX mailbox if it's either to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org or cc lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, thus preventing this problem. Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: Table column width
Grahame Blackwood schrieb: I am trying to set the width of a column in a table, but no matter what I do, it refuses to work. Have a look in the EmbededObject manual where this is described in detail. This manual is available since LyX 1.4.4, but you can download it also from here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#EmbeddedObjects regards Uwe
Re: Table column width
Grahame Blackwood wrote: Hi I am trying to set the width of a column in a table, but no matter what I do, it refuses to work. I think I have followed the instructions in the manual, trying repeatedly with the menu Edit>Table Settings or right-clicking within the column and setting the Width to the required value, and also entering 'p' in the Latex code field. Every time I close the dialoge box and open it up again the settings have disappeared. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? Help would be very much appreciated. I am using LyX 1.4.2. I don't recall it being necessary to enter the 'p'. Are you specifying units (e.g., 20ex or 5mm)? Somewhere around version 1.4.1 or 1.4.2 I ran into a problem where LyX would not remember clipping regions on figures unless they were integers. I don't recall that happening with tables, but maybe I never tried fractional values. So I suppose it's worth asking whether you're setting an integer width? Also, I can advocate an upgrade to at least 1.4.4 (which is stable and works well). /Paul
List problem
I suffering some minor pain with a list problem. This happens when someone posts using not the list submission address (lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) but posts a reply to the original sender, with a cc. to the list. At my end, this causes postings to the list to be routed to the wrong mail box and in addition it means that if I try and reply to the list the wrong address is inserted in the 'To:' field. Is anyone else having this problem at present? Regards, Nick. -- Nick and Anne Hopton, Caversham, Reading, England.
Re: float error
Robert Poser wrote:
Hi to all,
when I insert a picture in a float element, it leads to this error:
paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED] was complete.
Latex Error: \captoin outside float.
Extra }, or forgotten endgroup.
Too many \'s
Latex Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{figure.
Extra \endgroup.
Too many }'s.
Latex Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{description}
Extra \endgroup.
The error appears in LyX 1.5.0 rc1 and rc2. I'm not inserting the image in the
caption line. Any ideas? Inserting a float algorithm works fine...
Can you post a minimal example?
/Paul
Re: Table column width
On Monday 02 July 2007 09:08, Grahame Blackwood wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to set the width of a column in a table, but no matter what I > do, it refuses to work. > > I think I have followed the instructions in the manual, trying repeatedly > with the menu Edit>Table Settings or right-clicking within the column and > setting the Width to the required value, and also entering 'p' in the Latex > code field. Every time I close the dialoge box and open it up again the > settings have disappeared. > > Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? Help would be very much > appreciated. > > I am using LyX 1.4.2. I'm pretty sure I know. After changing the number in a column width field of the dialog box, you MUST PRESS ENTER. Clicking a button is not enough, you must press enter. It's one of the most bizarre user interfaces in the world, but considering that so much of LyX is engineered *just right*, I guess we can live with this bizarity. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: Really s-l-o-w configuration of rc2 on XP
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: This is the a problem of the used MiKTeX package repository or your internet connection. Does it go faster when you manually select another package repository in MiKTeX's options and then reconfigure LyX? What about my question? I can't test this without uninstalling/reinstalling LyX. When I run reconfigure from inside LyX, it either does not look for all the missing LaTeX packages or else does so by a method other than trying to compile a test document using that class. No, it doesn't matter from where you run the script. When the "Install missing packages on the fly" option is set to "ask me" or "yes", MiKTeX will get active. Please note, though, that when I ran the installer I had MikTeX's "Install missing packages on-the-fly" option set to 'No'. The installer sets it back to "yes" while installing to assure that the first configuration installs all packages needed by LyX. You can reset this later. So latex should have failed on the test documents using missing classes without any attempt to go to the Internet. There won't be a fail, the configure script still prints out if a package could be found or not. So the only thing I could help you is to recommand to update your MiKTeX using its update manager. If this doesn't help, chosse another package repository, if this doesn't help, turn off the internet and try if the needed time is now shorter. If also the offline test isn't successfull, there must be a problem with MiKTeX 2.6 - but for me it works as fast as always. regards Uwe
Re: LyX is stalling, using 50% CPU, (version 1.4.3-5, XP)
Mark Jago wrote: I am experiencing a rather annoying problem with LyX 1.4.3-5, running on XP. Every now and then (say a couple of times per hour) LyX all of a sudden stalls. lyxc.exe starts hammering the CPU at 50% for about 2 to 5 minutes. Meanwhile I cannot do a thing in LyX. Not even the LyX windows is updating. Then, after a few minutes, the CPU drops, the fan on the computer slows down, and I can resume using LyX as if nothing had happened. The frequency of these interruptions seems to be correlated to the length of the document and the number of documents opened. The more things opened, the more and longer interruptions. Why this frustrating problem with LyX? I have tried updating to newer versions, but of some reasons I run into other problems; font problems. This is why I stick to version 1.4.3-5. I think what you're experiencing may be covered by this discussion thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg51319.html. (Sorry, can't find the start of the thread.) Anyway, back around the version you're using, LyX would sometimes do something (presumably writing to the screen) that would send csrss.exe (a piece of Windows) into a temporary tailspin. I don't know if the developers ever figured out exactly what it was (might have been a problem with Qt that the Qt developers fixed), but LyX 1.4.4 and onward seem to be immune to the problem. As far as updating (highly recommended), if the font problem to which you alluded is that the math symbols disappear or display incorrectly in the GUI (but are correct in the compiled documents), that's a known phenomenon for which there is a workaround. I keep a copy of the BaKoMa4LyX font archive (the fonts LyX uses in the GUI) on my desktop. When an upgrade clobbers the fonts, I do the following: 1. unpack the archive to a temp directory; 2. use the Windows font manager applet to delete the BaKoMa fonts (eight of them as I recall); 3. use the font manager to reinstall them from the temp directory; 4. restart LyX. That typically fixes things, although I've seen other posts indicating that some people have to log off Windows and log back on to get the change to kick in (I don't recall having to do that). Mind you, the fonts I'm installing are identical to the ones I uninstalled -- I did a binary file comparison to test that -- but it seems to work. I haven't had to do this in maybe six months, knock on silicon chip, but I've seen a couple of posts lately indicating that people installing 1.5.0rc2 may have run into this again. Anyway, if that's the font problem, my take is that occasionally reinstalling fonts is less hassle than watching csrss eat all your CPU cycles. /Paul
float error
Hi to all,
when I insert a picture in a float element, it leads to this error:
paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED] was complete.
Latex Error: \captoin outside float.
Extra }, or forgotten endgroup.
Too many \'s
Latex Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{figure.
Extra \endgroup.
Too many }'s.
Latex Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{description}
Extra \endgroup.
The error appears in LyX 1.5.0 rc1 and rc2. I'm not inserting the image in the
caption line. Any ideas? Inserting a float algorithm works fine...
thanx,
Robert
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Re: Really s-l-o-w configuration of rc2 on XP
Hi, Uwe, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: When the installer got around to running the configuration script, it took easily ten times the normal time (normal time being about a minute or so, this go around being upwards of 10 minutes). During that time, fc-cache.exe (which I gather is a font caching utility that's part of XFree) ran intermittently and hammered my CPU, although I'm not sure it accounts for all the extra time spent. This is the a problem of the used MiKTeX package repository or your internet connection. Does it go faster when you manually select another package repository in MiKTeX's options and then reconfigure LyX? I can't test this without uninstalling/reinstalling LyX. When I run reconfigure from inside LyX, it either does not look for all the missing LaTeX packages or else does so by a method other than trying to compile a test document using that class. So reconfigure from inside LyX no longer causes MikTeX to look for missing classes. Please note, though, that when I ran the installer I had MikTeX's "Install missing packages on-the-fly" option set to 'No'. So latex should have failed on the test documents using missing classes without any attempt to go to the Internet. The configuration script ran in spurts -- several lines of output regarding packages, long pause, repeat -- and the pauses did not necessarily coincide with missing packages. In some cases, the next output line after a pause was a 'yes' (found), and in some cases a 'no' (not found). So I don't think this is tied to MikTeX trying to download packages. Does the installation script generate (or more likely use MikTeX to generate) font files when it discovers new fonts or font packages? Cheers, Paul
Re: legend at side of figure
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: This is described in section 3.7 or 3.8 in the EmbeddedObjects manual. I did not mean text floating around a figure. It's IN a float environment Yes, I mean that too. It's described in section "Caption Placement". (The package "sidecap") regards Uwe
Table column width
Hi I am trying to set the width of a column in a table, but no matter what I do, it refuses to work. I think I have followed the instructions in the manual, trying repeatedly with the menu Edit>Table Settings or right-clicking within the column and setting the Width to the required value, and also entering 'p' in the Latex code field. Every time I close the dialoge box and open it up again the settings have disappeared. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? Help would be very much appreciated. I am using LyX 1.4.2.
LyX is stalling, using 50% CPU, (version 1.4.3-5, XP)
I am experiencing a rather annoying problem with LyX 1.4.3-5, running on XP. Every now and then (say a couple of times per hour) LyX all of a sudden stalls. lyxc.exe starts hammering the CPU at 50% for about 2 to 5 minutes. Meanwhile I cannot do a thing in LyX. Not even the LyX windows is updating. Then, after a few minutes, the CPU drops, the fan on the computer slows down, and I can resume using LyX as if nothing had happened. The frequency of these interruptions seems to be correlated to the length of the document and the number of documents opened. The more things opened, the more and longer interruptions. Why this frustrating problem with LyX? I have tried updating to newer versions, but of some reasons I run into other problems; font problems. This is why I stick to version 1.4.3-5. Mark
Re: Strange problem in file-open dialog (1.5RC2, WinXP)
Persio Barros wrote: Now the subfolders in "My Documents" are all showing here. But the problem remains in other directories. And I have not changed anything in that folder, nor in the LyX installation. One thing I noted when opening a folder with lots of subfolders is that all the folder names do appear in the list for a short time (less then a second) and then some of them seem to be removed from there by the system. Also, if I open a non showing folder, by typing its name in the dialog, the folder name will be showing in the list when I go back up the tree. Very strange, indeed. Maybe it's a Qt bug? I can reproduce this issue, it's very annoying. Sometimes only a part of the folder contents is shown. It doesn't seem to be related to a specific folder, it happens at random times for every folder. Maybe it's related to: http://trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=166786 Joost
