Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 30/04/2015 02:39, Guillaume M-M a écrit :

Like the rest of you I ran into this bug when I upgraded today.

The best workaround for now is to run lyx with the command line:
   QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx
or equivalently to adapt /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop as follows:
   Exec=env QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx %F

The bug most probably comes from the package indicator-appmenu. You can
also follow the discussion there
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/1430059


A quick update: the bug is now fixed in Wily, and as indicated in the 
bug report, the deb file from Wily can be used on vivid without problem. 
I did that on my laptop and I have a functional LyX again.


What we need now is a real backport for vivid, but for some reason this 
is not happening.


JMarc

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 30/04/2015 02:39, Guillaume M-M a écrit :

Like the rest of you I ran into this bug when I upgraded today.

The best workaround for now is to run lyx with the command line:
   QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx
or equivalently to adapt /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop as follows:
   Exec=env QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx %F

The bug most probably comes from the package indicator-appmenu. You can
also follow the discussion there
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/1430059


A quick update: the bug is now fixed in Wily, and as indicated in the 
bug report, the deb file from Wily can be used on vivid without problem. 
I did that on my laptop and I have a functional LyX again.


What we need now is a real backport for vivid, but for some reason this 
is not happening.


JMarc

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 30/04/2015 02:39, Guillaume M-M a écrit :

Like the rest of you I ran into this bug when I upgraded today.

The best workaround for now is to run lyx with the command line:
   QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx
or equivalently to adapt /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop as follows:
   Exec=env QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx %F

The bug most probably comes from the package indicator-appmenu. You can
also follow the discussion there



A quick update: the bug is now fixed in Wily, and as indicated in the 
bug report, the deb file from Wily can be used on vivid without problem. 
I did that on my laptop and I have a functional LyX again.


What we need now is a real backport for vivid, but for some reason this 
is not happening.


JMarc

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Guillaume M-M]

On 04/25/15 07:46, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Blaine Elswood
blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:

Yep. You're right. That's the bug. I try to keep LyX so I don't have to deal
with it often. But others won't. Hope they fix it! LyX and Ubuntu are both
awesome when they are compatible.


Here is the best workaround I have so far:

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt

also, if you happen to be compiling on your own against qt5,

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt5

Read the description of the package to be aware of the consequences.

If you're interested in why this bug is occurring, follow the thread
I've started on lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org

Best,

Scott



Dear Blaine and other Ubuntu users,


Like the rest of you I ran into this bug when I upgraded today.

The best workaround for now is to run lyx with the command line:
  QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx
or equivalently to adapt /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop as follows:
  Exec=env QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx %F

The bug most probably comes from the package indicator-appmenu. You can 
also follow the discussion there 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/1430059



Guillaume

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Guillaume M-M]

On 04/25/15 07:46, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Blaine Elswood
blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:

Yep. You're right. That's the bug. I try to keep LyX so I don't have to deal
with it often. But others won't. Hope they fix it! LyX and Ubuntu are both
awesome when they are compatible.


Here is the best workaround I have so far:

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt

also, if you happen to be compiling on your own against qt5,

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt5

Read the description of the package to be aware of the consequences.

If you're interested in why this bug is occurring, follow the thread
I've started on lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org

Best,

Scott



Dear Blaine and other Ubuntu users,


Like the rest of you I ran into this bug when I upgraded today.

The best workaround for now is to run lyx with the command line:
  QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx
or equivalently to adapt /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop as follows:
  Exec=env QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx %F

The bug most probably comes from the package indicator-appmenu. You can 
also follow the discussion there 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/1430059



Guillaume

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Guillaume M-M]

On 04/25/15 07:46, Scott Kostyshak wrote:

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Blaine Elswood
 wrote:

Yep. You're right. That's the bug. I try to keep LyX so I don't have to deal
with it often. But others won't. Hope they fix it! LyX and Ubuntu are both
awesome when they are compatible.


Here is the best workaround I have so far:

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt

also, if you happen to be compiling on your own against qt5,

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt5

Read the description of the package to be aware of the consequences.

If you're interested in why this bug is occurring, follow the thread
I've started on lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org

Best,

Scott



Dear Blaine and other Ubuntu users,


Like the rest of you I ran into this bug when I upgraded today.

The best workaround for now is to run lyx with the command line:
  QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx
or equivalently to adapt /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop as follows:
  Exec=env QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx %F

The bug most probably comes from the package indicator-appmenu. You can 
also follow the discussion there 




Guillaume

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Blaine Elswood
blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yep. You're right. That's the bug. I try to keep LyX so I don't have to deal
 with it often. But others won't. Hope they fix it! LyX and Ubuntu are both
 awesome when they are compatible.

Here is the best workaround I have so far:

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt

also, if you happen to be compiling on your own against qt5,

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt5

Read the description of the package to be aware of the consequences.

If you're interested in why this bug is occurring, follow the thread
I've started on lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org

Best,

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Blaine Elswood
blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yep. You're right. That's the bug. I try to keep LyX so I don't have to deal
 with it often. But others won't. Hope they fix it! LyX and Ubuntu are both
 awesome when they are compatible.

Here is the best workaround I have so far:

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt

also, if you happen to be compiling on your own against qt5,

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt5

Read the description of the package to be aware of the consequences.

If you're interested in why this bug is occurring, follow the thread
I've started on lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org

Best,

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Blaine Elswood
 wrote:
> Yep. You're right. That's the bug. I try to keep LyX so I don't have to deal
> with it often. But others won't. Hope they fix it! LyX and Ubuntu are both
> awesome when they are compatible.

Here is the best workaround I have so far:

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt

also, if you happen to be compiling on your own against qt5,

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt5

Read the description of the package to be aware of the consequences.

If you're interested in why this bug is occurring, follow the thread
I've started on lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org

Best,

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

No. I have done all the current updates, and the only way I can get the
drop menus working is to change the language into any language and then
change it back again.  The drop menus then work fine until you shut down
LyX and the next time you open it up you have to do the same thing again.
(As easy helpfully pointed out to me.) When Ubuntu 15.04 is officially
released this Thursday and LyX users all over the world up grade their
Ubuntu systems, you will probably hear lots of cries for help with this
bug.
On Apr 18, 2015 12:47 PM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote:

 On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
  blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
  I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
  version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there
 are
  no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
 
  I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,
 save,
  update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
 before
  the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
 TexLive
  packages to no avail.
 
 
  Even without export to menus, you should be able to:
  - preview (using the toolbar button)
  - save the PDF from the preview
  - save the lyx file (ctrl+s)
 
  Liviu

 Dear Blaine,

 Were you able to get the problem fixed? It is important for us to know
 because otherwise this could be a serious bug we need to look into.

 Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
 blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
 version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
 no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

 I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to, save,
 update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX before
 the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and TexLive
 packages to no avail.


 Even without export to menus, you should be able to:
 - preview (using the toolbar button)
 - save the PDF from the preview
 - save the lyx file (ctrl+s)

 Liviu

Dear Blaine,

Were you able to get the problem fixed? It is important for us to know
because otherwise this could be a serious bug we need to look into.

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Blaine Elswood
blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
 No. I have done all the current updates, and the only way I can get the drop
 menus working is to change the language into any language and then change it
 back again.  The drop menus then work fine until you shut down LyX and the
 next time you open it up you have to do the same thing again. (As easy
 helpfully pointed out to me.) When Ubuntu 15.04 is officially released this
 Thursday and LyX users all over the world up grade their Ubuntu systems, you
 will probably hear lots of cries for help with this bug.

Indeed. Thank you for getting back to us. Hopefully we can figure out
what's going on. I think you are running into the same issue as
reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/1430059

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

Yep. You're right. That's the bug. I try to keep LyX so I don't have to
deal with it often. But others won't. Hope they fix it! LyX and Ubuntu are
both awesome when they are compatible.
On Apr 18, 2015 1:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote:

 On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Blaine Elswood
 blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
  No. I have done all the current updates, and the only way I can get the
 drop
  menus working is to change the language into any language and then
 change it
  back again.  The drop menus then work fine until you shut down LyX and
 the
  next time you open it up you have to do the same thing again. (As easy
  helpfully pointed out to me.) When Ubuntu 15.04 is officially released
 this
  Thursday and LyX users all over the world up grade their Ubuntu systems,
 you
  will probably hear lots of cries for help with this bug.

 Indeed. Thank you for getting back to us. Hopefully we can figure out
 what's going on. I think you are running into the same issue as
 reported here:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/1430059

 Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
 blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
 version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
 no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

 I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to, save,
 update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX before
 the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and TexLive
 packages to no avail.


 Even without export to menus, you should be able to:
 - preview (using the toolbar button)
 - save the PDF from the preview
 - save the lyx file (ctrl+s)

 Liviu

Dear Blaine,

Were you able to get the problem fixed? It is important for us to know
because otherwise this could be a serious bug we need to look into.

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

No. I have done all the current updates, and the only way I can get the
drop menus working is to change the language into any language and then
change it back again.  The drop menus then work fine until you shut down
LyX and the next time you open it up you have to do the same thing again.
(As easy helpfully pointed out to me.) When Ubuntu 15.04 is officially
released this Thursday and LyX users all over the world up grade their
Ubuntu systems, you will probably hear lots of cries for help with this
bug.
On Apr 18, 2015 12:47 PM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote:

 On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
  blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
  I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
  version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there
 are
  no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
 
  I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,
 save,
  update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
 before
  the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
 TexLive
  packages to no avail.
 
 
  Even without export to menus, you should be able to:
  - preview (using the toolbar button)
  - save the PDF from the preview
  - save the lyx file (ctrl+s)
 
  Liviu

 Dear Blaine,

 Were you able to get the problem fixed? It is important for us to know
 because otherwise this could be a serious bug we need to look into.

 Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Blaine Elswood
blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
 No. I have done all the current updates, and the only way I can get the drop
 menus working is to change the language into any language and then change it
 back again.  The drop menus then work fine until you shut down LyX and the
 next time you open it up you have to do the same thing again. (As easy
 helpfully pointed out to me.) When Ubuntu 15.04 is officially released this
 Thursday and LyX users all over the world up grade their Ubuntu systems, you
 will probably hear lots of cries for help with this bug.

Indeed. Thank you for getting back to us. Hopefully we can figure out
what's going on. I think you are running into the same issue as
reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/1430059

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

Yep. You're right. That's the bug. I try to keep LyX so I don't have to
deal with it often. But others won't. Hope they fix it! LyX and Ubuntu are
both awesome when they are compatible.
On Apr 18, 2015 1:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote:

 On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Blaine Elswood
 blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
  No. I have done all the current updates, and the only way I can get the
 drop
  menus working is to change the language into any language and then
 change it
  back again.  The drop menus then work fine until you shut down LyX and
 the
  next time you open it up you have to do the same thing again. (As easy
  helpfully pointed out to me.) When Ubuntu 15.04 is officially released
 this
  Thursday and LyX users all over the world up grade their Ubuntu systems,
 you
  will probably hear lots of cries for help with this bug.

 Indeed. Thank you for getting back to us. Hopefully we can figure out
 what's going on. I think you are running into the same issue as
 reported here:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/1430059

 Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Liviu Andronic  wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
>  wrote:
>> I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
>> version to 2.1.3. However, the "export to" menu is now faded and there are
>> no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
>>
>> I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to, save,
>> update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX before
>> the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and TexLive
>> packages to no avail.
>>
>
> Even without "export to" menus, you should be able to:
> - preview (using the toolbar button)
> - save the PDF from the preview
> - save the lyx file (ctrl+s)
>
> Liviu

Dear Blaine,

Were you able to get the problem fixed? It is important for us to know
because otherwise this could be a serious bug we need to look into.

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

No. I have done all the current updates, and the only way I can get the
drop menus working is to change the language into any language and then
change it back again.  The drop menus then work fine until you shut down
LyX and the next time you open it up you have to do the same thing again.
(As easy helpfully pointed out to me.) When Ubuntu 15.04 is officially
released this Thursday and LyX users all over the world up grade their
Ubuntu systems, you will probably hear lots of cries for help with this
bug.
On Apr 18, 2015 12:47 PM, "Scott Kostyshak"  wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Liviu Andronic 
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
> >  wrote:
> >> I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
> >> version to 2.1.3. However, the "export to" menu is now faded and there
> are
> >> no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
> >>
> >> I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,
> save,
> >> update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
> before
> >> the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
> TexLive
> >> packages to no avail.
> >>
> >
> > Even without "export to" menus, you should be able to:
> > - preview (using the toolbar button)
> > - save the PDF from the preview
> > - save the lyx file (ctrl+s)
> >
> > Liviu
>
> Dear Blaine,
>
> Were you able to get the problem fixed? It is important for us to know
> because otherwise this could be a serious bug we need to look into.
>
> Scott
>

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Blaine Elswood
 wrote:
> No. I have done all the current updates, and the only way I can get the drop
> menus working is to change the language into any language and then change it
> back again.  The drop menus then work fine until you shut down LyX and the
> next time you open it up you have to do the same thing again. (As easy
> helpfully pointed out to me.) When Ubuntu 15.04 is officially released this
> Thursday and LyX users all over the world up grade their Ubuntu systems, you
> will probably hear lots of cries for help with this bug.

Indeed. Thank you for getting back to us. Hopefully we can figure out
what's going on. I think you are running into the same issue as
reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/1430059

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

Yep. You're right. That's the bug. I try to keep LyX so I don't have to
deal with it often. But others won't. Hope they fix it! LyX and Ubuntu are
both awesome when they are compatible.
On Apr 18, 2015 1:40 PM, "Scott Kostyshak"  wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Blaine Elswood
>  wrote:
> > No. I have done all the current updates, and the only way I can get the
> drop
> > menus working is to change the language into any language and then
> change it
> > back again.  The drop menus then work fine until you shut down LyX and
> the
> > next time you open it up you have to do the same thing again. (As easy
> > helpfully pointed out to me.) When Ubuntu 15.04 is officially released
> this
> > Thursday and LyX users all over the world up grade their Ubuntu systems,
> you
> > will probably hear lots of cries for help with this bug.
>
> Indeed. Thank you for getting back to us. Hopefully we can figure out
> what's going on. I think you are running into the same issue as
> reported here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/1430059
>
> Scott
>

No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,
save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
TexLive packages to no avail.

Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
indispensable to my work product.)

Thank you in advance.

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

Hi Blaine,

This certainly sounds frustrating. Thanks for reporting this to us and
for the nice comments about how useful LyX is to you. Please
exit LyX, then run

mv ~/.lyx ~/Desktop/DOTlyx_backup

Then start LyX again.

Does it work now? If so, can you please *not* delete DOTlyx_backup? We
might like to take a look at it to see what caused this to break.

Below I give some unsolicited advice. Feel free to ignore it.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 04:23:32PM -0600, Blaine Elswood wrote:
 I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
 version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
 no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
 
 I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,

You should always be careful when updating. I am not saying that LyX is
not responsible. I believe that LyX is at fault here and I think there
is a bug in LyX that caused this to happen. But you should be prepared
for things to break when you upgrade. Always have a backup plan. And do
not upgrade before the final release of Ubuntu 15.04 (later this month).
In fact, I would suggest not upgrading until a few months *after* the
final release of Ubuntu. Actually, if you are desperate to have a stable
system and are not willing to put up with things breaking, only upgrade
to LTS versions. My last bit of advice is to not upgrade, and to do a
clean install. If you have an install script that installs all the
software you need this makes it easy.

Again, I think this is a LyX bug. But it can be tricky to make things
upgrade without problems. This has to do with backwards compatibility of
preferences and settings and other things.

 save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
 before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
 TexLive packages to no avail.
 
 Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
 indispensable to my work product.)
 
 Thank you in advance.

I hope we get the issue resolved soon!

For what it's worth, I've used 15.04 since the early alpha days and do
not have a problem with LyX. But I am using the development version of
LyX and compiling myself so we have different setups.

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote:
 Hi Blaine,

Note that this message has been cross-posted here:
http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19t=26194p=89418

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
 version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
 no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

 I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to, save,
 update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX before
 the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and TexLive
 packages to no avail.


Even without export to menus, you should be able to:
- preview (using the toolbar button)
- save the PDF from the preview
- save the lyx file (ctrl+s)

Liviu


 Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
 indispensable to my work product.)

 Thank you in advance.



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library

No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,
save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
TexLive packages to no avail.

Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
indispensable to my work product.)

Thank you in advance.

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

Hi Blaine,

This certainly sounds frustrating. Thanks for reporting this to us and
for the nice comments about how useful LyX is to you. Please
exit LyX, then run

mv ~/.lyx ~/Desktop/DOTlyx_backup

Then start LyX again.

Does it work now? If so, can you please *not* delete DOTlyx_backup? We
might like to take a look at it to see what caused this to break.

Below I give some unsolicited advice. Feel free to ignore it.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 04:23:32PM -0600, Blaine Elswood wrote:
 I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
 version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
 no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
 
 I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,

You should always be careful when updating. I am not saying that LyX is
not responsible. I believe that LyX is at fault here and I think there
is a bug in LyX that caused this to happen. But you should be prepared
for things to break when you upgrade. Always have a backup plan. And do
not upgrade before the final release of Ubuntu 15.04 (later this month).
In fact, I would suggest not upgrading until a few months *after* the
final release of Ubuntu. Actually, if you are desperate to have a stable
system and are not willing to put up with things breaking, only upgrade
to LTS versions. My last bit of advice is to not upgrade, and to do a
clean install. If you have an install script that installs all the
software you need this makes it easy.

Again, I think this is a LyX bug. But it can be tricky to make things
upgrade without problems. This has to do with backwards compatibility of
preferences and settings and other things.

 save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
 before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
 TexLive packages to no avail.
 
 Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
 indispensable to my work product.)
 
 Thank you in advance.

I hope we get the issue resolved soon!

For what it's worth, I've used 15.04 since the early alpha days and do
not have a problem with LyX. But I am using the development version of
LyX and compiling myself so we have different setups.

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote:
 Hi Blaine,

Note that this message has been cross-posted here:
http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19t=26194p=89418

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
blaine.elsw...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
 version to 2.1.3. However, the export to menu is now faded and there are
 no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

 I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to, save,
 update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX before
 the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and TexLive
 packages to no avail.


Even without export to menus, you should be able to:
- preview (using the toolbar button)
- save the PDF from the preview
- save the lyx file (ctrl+s)

Liviu


 Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
 indispensable to my work product.)

 Thank you in advance.



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library

No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Blaine Elswood]

I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
version to 2.1.3. However, the "export to" menu is now faded and there are
no menu items to update or view pdflatex.

I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,
save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
TexLive packages to no avail.

Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
indispensable to my work product.)

Thank you in advance.

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

Hi Blaine,

This certainly sounds frustrating. Thanks for reporting this to us and
for the nice comments about how useful LyX is to you. Please
exit LyX, then run

mv ~/.lyx ~/Desktop/DOTlyx_backup

Then start LyX again.

Does it work now? If so, can you please *not* delete DOTlyx_backup? We
might like to take a look at it to see what caused this to break.

Below I give some unsolicited advice. Feel free to ignore it.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 04:23:32PM -0600, Blaine Elswood wrote:
> I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
> version to 2.1.3. However, the "export to" menu is now faded and there are
> no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
> 
> I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to,

You should always be careful when updating. I am not saying that LyX is
not responsible. I believe that LyX is at fault here and I think there
is a bug in LyX that caused this to happen. But you should be prepared
for things to break when you upgrade. Always have a backup plan. And do
not upgrade before the final release of Ubuntu 15.04 (later this month).
In fact, I would suggest not upgrading until a few months *after* the
final release of Ubuntu. Actually, if you are "desperate" to have a stable
system and are not willing to put up with things breaking, only upgrade
to LTS versions. My last bit of advice is to not upgrade, and to do a
clean install. If you have an install script that installs all the
software you need this makes it easy.

Again, I think this is a LyX bug. But it can be tricky to make things
upgrade without problems. This has to do with backwards compatibility of
preferences and settings and other things.

> save, update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX
> before the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and
> TexLive packages to no avail.
> 
> Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
> indispensable to my work product.)
> 
> Thank you in advance.

I hope we get the issue resolved soon!

For what it's worth, I've used 15.04 since the early alpha days and do
not have a problem with LyX. But I am using the development version of
LyX and compiling myself so we have different setups.

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Scott Kostyshak  wrote:
> Hi Blaine,

Note that this message has been cross-posted here:
http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19=26194=89418

Scott

Re: No export menus LyX 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Blaine Elswood
 wrote:
> I have recently updated my Ubuntu system to 15.04 and it upgraded my LyX
> version to 2.1.3. However, the "export to" menu is now faded and there are
> no menu items to update or view pdflatex.
>
> I use LyX everyday to write a novel and desperately need to export to, save,
> update, and view pdflatex files. These functions worked fine in LyX before
> the upgrade to version 2.1.3. I have tried to reinstall both LyX and TexLive
> packages to no avail.
>

Even without "export to" menus, you should be able to:
- preview (using the toolbar button)
- save the PDF from the preview
- save the lyx file (ctrl+s)

Liviu


> Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated! (I consider LyX as
> indispensable to my work product.)
>
> Thank you in advance.



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library