On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:07:07PM +0200, Miki Dovrat wrote: > Hi, > > I am using lyx 1.3.4 with the QT frontend on linux (Mandrake). > > Can anyone what fonts lyx uses for its menus and pop-up windows (search, > math panel, figures, etc.) and where these settings are located? > > My problem is displaying of Hebrew (or more precisely inability to > display...) in these places, I am getting giberish. The "navigate" is > especially annoying... > > The global font definitions of the KDE, as well as the screen fonts and > pop-up fonts defined in the lyx preference file do not seem to affect the > lyx choice of fonts (the screen fonts affect the document display, of > course).
As lyx doesn't use Unicode internally, you need to specify the locale: Before running lyx, set the LANG environment variable to 'he_IL'. This can be done in .bashrc/.tcshrc. Alternatively, alias lyx to 'env LANG=he_IL lyx'.
