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

[jfbu]

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 :
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>> Le 12 nov. 2019 à 11:50, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> a écrit :
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>>> 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
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>> 
>> 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
>> 
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> 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

xdvi.expertMode:	0


in old file

and

xdvi.expertMode:	7


in new file

I don't recall having set the xdvi.expertMode, but maybe I did years ago...