Kile works in KDE window manager in Ubuntu! and the video cam, wireless, and microphone divices all work!

I got a surprise when I tried KIle in the kdm (KDE window manager or desktop). Kile latex IDE works fine in it and there are no more annoying messages about creating a default factory method. I can now insert math symbols selected from the left panel.
Its still the same 2.1.0 version of Kile. So I suspect that there were wrong settings for GNOME when I was still in Ubuntu 11.04.

This may now be my default window manager in my laptop while my ACER ONE still uses unity desktop. The system response is perceptibly fast!!

I went back to GNOME and I pleasantly discovered that I got my video and microphones and wireless working! Of course I updated my packages after upgrading to the Ocelot Ubuntu distribution. This may have fixed any issues with the softwares in the first upgrade.

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal: Kile Latex IDE is broken

When I first tried using Kile in my new OS Ubuntu 11.04, it refused to insert math symbol selected from the left panel. So I removed the application and reinstalled again only now the program does not even run!

For published bug reports, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kile/+bug/772631. I am now
trying to downgrade the version of KIle now back to 2.0.

Tried first to install a beta 5 version (kile_2.1.0~svn2010122beta5-1ubuntu1~natty1~ppa1_amd64.deb) but it still does not execute??!).

Even the downgrade does not work even!
Will watch for developments on Kile.

In the meantime I have installed texmaker and trying out its capabilities. The important thing in Linux is the freedom to choose from various softwares. Now a dedicated Latex editor is not only for beginners of Latex, it can also be used as a productivity enhancement for intermediate and advanced users of Latex, when time is important. Of course we allow other people the freedom to say that real Latex users dont use dedicated Latex editors, Emacs or Vi will do!


February 19, 2012. Kile works now in my upgraded Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot. But Kile is still in version 1.2.

KIle -an integrated Latex environment

Kile is an integrated Latex environment software with the following features(from
its Kile homepage

• Compile, convert and view your document with one click.
  
• Auto-completion of (La)TeX commands
  
• Templates and wizards make starting a new document very little work.
  
• Easy insertion of many standard tags and symbols and the option to define (an arbitrary number of) user defined tags.
  
• Inverse and forward search: click in the DVI viewer and jump to the corresponding LaTeX line in the editor, or jump from the editor to the corresponding page in the viewer.
  
• Finding chapter or sections is very easy, Kile constructs a list of all the chapter etc. in your document. You can use the list to jump to the corresponding section.
  
• Collect documents that belong together into a project.
  
• Easy insertion of citations and references when using projects.
  
• Flexible and smart build system to compile your LaTeX documents.
  
• QuickPreview, preview a selected part of your document.
  
• Easy access to various help sources.
  
• Advanced editing commands.
  

Although Kile is a KDE application, you can still install it in Ubuntu Koala using the standard

sudo apt-get install kile

command in the command line. The aptitude system will pull in a lot of KDE support softwares even if you are more comfortable with the GNOME Desktop. At this writing, the version I have is 2.0.83 in KDE 4.3.2, while the latest unstable version is already at 2.1 Beta 3. Kile is easy to use but you need to know some rudiments of Knuth's Latex typesetting setting system of denoting mathematical equations. As a simple example, let us write the following in kile: The kinetic energy of a body with mass m and speed v is given by (1/2) mv^2. Now run Kile and start with a new article. Automatically, Kile will give you a blank built in article template like this:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

%opening
\title{}
\author{}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}

\end{abstract}

\section{}

\end{document}

Now edit the above so it will be shown as

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

%opening
\title{Kinetic Energy of a moving body}
\author{Ali Baba}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
Example Latex article example
\end{abstract}

\section{Definition}
The kinetic energy of a body with mass $m$ and speed $v$ is given by $\frac{1}{2}m\cdot v^2$.

\end{document}

Save the file to myfirst.tex and then click on Quickbuild icon. If everything is allright, Kile will call support programs to generate a pdf file myfirst.pdf. Here is an image of the output.

If you get this far, congratulations!  There is still so much to discuss but we stop here at this moment. We only illustrate that KIle is an easy to use free-software to generate professional looking typeset documents.


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