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13. January 2020

TeXworks: Editor Window opens without Titlebar, no way to minimize

Filed under: Linux — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 11:33

I was using TeXworks 0.6.2 to edit LaTeX files under Ubuntu Linux 18.04 (using Gnome with X11). Suddenly, a file that I had edited before would always open in a strange way. The preview window with the PDF would open normally. But the editor opened maximized without a titlebar, window border etc. So there was no way to minimize the editor window.

I tried to minimize the window using keyboard commands and the Window-Menu of the TeXworks editor. I managed to move the window to a different screen using keyboard commands, but still maximized without a titlebar. The window menu also did not work. Restarting TeXworks also did not help. Other files would open normally.

What finally helped: File / Remove Aux Files…
Afterwards, restart TeXworks.

I did not know that TexWorks stores window status information in aux-files. But it seems it does, as deleting these files solved the problem.

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27. March 2014

TeXworks: Compiling your main.tex from an included part

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , — Christopher Kramer @ 18:31

In case you have split your LaTeX document (let’s say main.tex) into multiple parts (let’s say part01.tex, …) and use include or input to stick it back together, you cannot compile part01.tex because it misses all the header stuff. So you need to compile main.tex. But is there a way in TeXworks to compile it using the Play-Button or CTRL+T?

Yes, there is. Add this line at the top of part01.tex etc:

% !TEX root = main.tex

Then just compile your files normally. It will compile main.tex, show the main.pdf in the preview and you can even navigate nicely using the context menu from pdf to tex and back.