From b2863abe6a9b5a03662562ea017548d8d3221d9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kastrup Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 22:47:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Issue 3368: Give additional info about Xpdf versions crashing under Ubuntu --- Documentation/usage/external.itely | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/usage/external.itely b/Documentation/usage/external.itely index 6ca9804d2a..136b7a2f31 100644 --- a/Documentation/usage/external.itely +++ b/Documentation/usage/external.itely @@ -107,11 +107,26 @@ For Xpdf on UNIX, the following should be present in urlCommand "lilypond-invoke-editor %s" @end example +If you are using Ubuntu, it is likely that the version of Xpdf +installed with your system crashes on every PDF file: this state +has been persisting for several years and is due to library +mismatches. Your best bet is to install a current @samp{xpdf} +package and the corresponding @samp{libpoppler} package from +Debian instead. Once you have tested that this works, you might +want to use +@example +sudo apt-mark hold xpdf +@end example +@noindent +in order to keep Ubuntu from overwriting it with the next +@q{update} of its crashing package. + @node Using GNOME 2 for point and click @unnumberedsubsubsec Using GNOME 2 -For using GNOME 2, the magic invocation for telling the system -about the @samp{textedit:} URI is +For using GNOME 2 (and PDF viewers integrated with it), the magic +invocation for telling the system about the @samp{textedit:} URI +is @example gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/textedit/command "lilypond-invoke-editor %s" gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/textedit/needs_terminal false -t bool -- 2.39.2