[tex-k] xdvi starts up without showing option menu in right side of window

[Paul Vojta]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:03:03PM +0100, jfbu wrote:
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> Le 12 nov. 2019 à 11:56, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> a écrit :
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> > 
> > Le 12 nov. 2019 à 11:52, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> a écrit :
> > 
> >> 
> >> Le 12 nov. 2019 à 11:50, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> a écrit :
> >> 
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I had not used xdvi for some time.
> >>> 
> >>> xdvi test.dvi &
> >>> 
> >>> opens up a Window without visible menus in right side
> >>> 
> >>> but I accidentally discovered that hitting the x key makes them visible
> >>> 
> >>> (as well as the scrollbars)
> >>> 
> >>> I removed my .xdvirc for testing
> >>> 
> >>> $ which -a xdvi
> >>> /Library/TeX/texbin/xdvi
> >>> 
> >>> $ xdvi --version
> >>> xdvik version 22.87.03 (Xaw toolkit)
> >>> Libraries: kpathsea version 6.3.1, freetype version 2.9.1
> >>> 
> >>> I am using TeXLive darwing-legacy on mac osx 10.9.5
> >>> 
> >>> any info I can provide?
> >>> 
> >>> Best,
> >>> Jean-François
> >>> Please keep CC to my address as I don't subscribe to the list
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Hmm,
> >> 
> >> Immediately after posting it now seems to work.
> >> 
> >> Perhaps my .xdvirc was corrupted or incompatible
> >> and it was not yet written back to disk in my first trials
> >> 
> > 
> > sorry for noise, the problem was with old .xdvirc file.
> > 
> > I had not modified it, but apparently some update to xdvi
> > was not backwards compatible with old .xdvirc file
> > 
> > if people are interested I can post the bad file
> 
> 
> Seems the sole difference was
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> xdvi.expertMode:	0
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> in old file
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> and
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> xdvi.expertMode:	7
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> in new file
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> I don't recall having set the xdvi.expertMode, but maybe I did years ago...
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> 
> 

You set the xdvi.expertMode when you hit the 'x' key (or actually xdvi does
that when you press 'x').

Paul Vojta, vojta at math.berkeley.edu