Hi,
I run LyX on a machine that has no spellings checker installed! The following happens when I start LyX from an xterminal: *Immediately* after selecting the spellings checker, the xterminal gets the message "LyX: Failed to start ispell!". Then LyX seems to hang for a while. After that while, the xterminal gets "Ispell read timed out, what now?" and TWO identical error dialogs, one after the other, appear on my display; dialog screenshot attached. Why does LyX hang/wait, when it detects so quickly that "LyX: Failed to start ispell!" ?? Having two identical error messages (the second appears as soon as I close the first) is one too many. BTW is the beginning of the sentence missing in the error message? Another peculiar detail: selecting "ispell" or "aspell" in preferences both pop up in the xterminal "LyX: Failed to start ispell!". Something is not working properly here! Regards, Rob.
