lyx has problem with network directory names

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Oct 5 00:19:00 GMT 2006


David Arnstein wrote:
> I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my
> home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This
> is a network directory, obviously.
> 
> When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint
> 	QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt
> 
> When I try to save a lyx document to my home directory, lyx complains
> when it presents its file browser dialog box. It says
> 	Could not read directory /fs-sj1-15
> 
> It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It
> does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax "//."


So mounting the share should work-around this issue, right?


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