On Sun, 5 Nov 2023 15:58:50 +0000 Peter<peter.northe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions. I have tried lots of window managers > now and come to the end of time and energy. Need to get on with the > work and stop tinkering. I've created a new user and tried with that > - didn't help. I haven't found a different window manager I can live > with that will run Lyx. ICEWM is the closest. I'll make one more > effort, create a VM and try a clean Debian install, and if it works, > use that. And if that doesn't work, go back to Open Office. Not > great, but it can be made to do the job. > > I'm starting to suspect it may have something to do with Wayland. Or > it could be NVidia as Steve suggests, at this point its beyond me. I > have looked at Kile and Texworks but they both (esp Texworks) are a > project in themselves to learn. That was so nice about Lyx, I could > just write, structure and then export. It was great while it lasted. > > > Just to reply on FLWM, I had tried the crystal version. So next tried > the base version. The base version does load but with lots of error > messages which makes me nervous. But I can't do with FLWM as my WM. > > The second time I've been snookered by using a rather specialist > authoring tool. The other was Scrivener, which was great - until they > dropped Linux! > > I'll give a new Debian VM a try and then have to give up. > > Peter Man, if you really care so much about your favourite window manager you /really/ can just go to http://lists.lyx.org/pipermail/lyx-devel/2023-November/011000.html and actually help developers to address this issue with fluxbox. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
