Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 192253
lyx: set default lyxpipe
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:33 EST
Description of problem: Using pybibliographer I am unable to add a citation to a running instance of LyX. It appears that the pipes that should be present are not present. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always. See bug 192252 Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Newer versions of lyx don't seem to create lyxpipe automatically. You can set it under the menu Tools->Preferences->Paths. Type /home/yourhome/.lyx/lyxpipe at LyXServer pipe:. (Maybe it is a feature not a bug?)
Bingo! Now works. I tried playing with that before, but couldn't make it work. The secret is entering ~/.lyx/lyxpipe I was entering ~/.lyx/lyxpipe.in This is something that I feel needs to be tweaked a little as it should work "Out of the box". > (Maybe it is a feature not a bug?) I am somewhat sceptical that it's a feature ;-) To reiterate in case anyone else has this issue. Starting from a fresh LyX configuration (i.e. removing ~/.lyx) the following works for me: 1) Start LyX 2) Under Tools -> Preferences -> Paths enter: ~/.lyx/lyxpipe For the option named "LyXServer pipe" 3) Exit LyX 4) Start LyX 5) You should now see two sockets created under ~/.lyx/ They are ~/.lyx/lyxpipe.in and ~/.lyx/lyxpipe.out 6) Start pybibliographer. It should now work as advertised. Could someone ensure that the default is set correctly in future versions? It really wasn't clear what magic incantations needed to be entered. Thanks for your prompt response!
Thanks for the report. Upon closer inspection, it turns out there's a few other handy defaults that should (I think anyway) get set. I'll include these defaults in the next build: screen_font_roman "Serif" screen_font_sans "Sans" screen_font_typewriter "Monospace" screen_zoom 100 serverpipe "~/.lyx/pipe"
For serverpipe ~/.lyx/lyxpipe would be better (instead of ~/.lyx/pipe)! As I remember that was the default in older versions, and it is the default in pybliographer.
OK, will do.
lyx-1.4.1-7 build queued, should appear soon in a repo near you. * Wed May 24 2006 Rex Dieter <rexdieter[AT]users.sf.net> 1.4.1-7 - use serverpipe "~/.lyx/lyxpipe" instead, that was the old default and what pybibliographer expects. * Tue May 23 2006 Rex Dieter <rexdieter[AT]users.sf.net> 1.4.1-6 - set defaults for (see %{_datadir}/lyx/lyxrc.defaults.custom) screen_font_roman "Serif" screen_font_sans "Sans" screen_font_typewriter "Monospace" screen_zoom 100 serverpipe "~/.lyx/pipe"