Double click LyX on Mac doesn't open LyX

2008-12-19 Thread David Mertens 
Hello -

I have a rather circuitous issue.  I'm a grad student.  My advisor is
generally a word guy but has agreed to use LyX at my request.  He's followed
the installation instructions multiple times (I've watched).  However, when
he double-clicks on the LyX listing in the Applications folder, we see the
icon fly-out (indicating to me that Mac has started the program) but it
never shows up, either on the screen or in the active-apps sidebar.  I would
troubleshoot this myself, but I'm a Linux/Windows guy and have no knowledge
of Macs.

So, where do I start?

Mac OS: 10.3.9
LyX Ver: 1.6.1

Re: Double click LyX on Mac doesn't open LyX

2008-12-19 Thread James Sutherland 

So, where do I start?

Mac OS: 10.3.9
LyX Ver: 1.6.1


Not the answer you want, but you might start by updating the OS.  I  
haven't had any trouble with OS 10.5.x.  10.3.x is pretty old...

Re: Double click LyX on Mac doesn't open LyX

2008-12-19 Thread Bennett Helm 
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:46 PM, James Sutherland
james.sutherl...@utah.edu wrote:
 So, where do I start?

 Mac OS: 10.3.9
 LyX Ver: 1.6.1

 Not the answer you want, but you might start by updating the OS.  I haven't
 had any trouble with OS 10.5.x.  10.3.x is pretty old...

We're actually uncertain as to whether 10.3.9 is supported. (We know
10.4 and 10.5 are.) You can try launching LyX from the Terminal
(/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) by entering:
/path/to/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx. Then when LyX crashes, report
back on what error message gets spit out in the Terminal.

Doing this may confirm for us that 10.3.9 is not supported.

Bennett

Double click LyX on Mac doesn't open LyX

2008-12-19 Thread David Mertens 
Hello -

I have a rather circuitous issue.  I'm a grad student.  My advisor is
generally a word guy but has agreed to use LyX at my request.  He's followed
the installation instructions multiple times (I've watched).  However, when
he double-clicks on the LyX listing in the Applications folder, we see the
icon fly-out (indicating to me that Mac has started the program) but it
never shows up, either on the screen or in the active-apps sidebar.  I would
troubleshoot this myself, but I'm a Linux/Windows guy and have no knowledge
of Macs.

So, where do I start?

Mac OS: 10.3.9
LyX Ver: 1.6.1

Re: Double click LyX on Mac doesn't open LyX

2008-12-19 Thread James Sutherland 

So, where do I start?

Mac OS: 10.3.9
LyX Ver: 1.6.1


Not the answer you want, but you might start by updating the OS.  I  
haven't had any trouble with OS 10.5.x.  10.3.x is pretty old...

Re: Double click LyX on Mac doesn't open LyX

2008-12-19 Thread Bennett Helm 
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:46 PM, James Sutherland
james.sutherl...@utah.edu wrote:
 So, where do I start?

 Mac OS: 10.3.9
 LyX Ver: 1.6.1

 Not the answer you want, but you might start by updating the OS.  I haven't
 had any trouble with OS 10.5.x.  10.3.x is pretty old...

We're actually uncertain as to whether 10.3.9 is supported. (We know
10.4 and 10.5 are.) You can try launching LyX from the Terminal
(/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) by entering:
/path/to/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx. Then when LyX crashes, report
back on what error message gets spit out in the Terminal.

Doing this may confirm for us that 10.3.9 is not supported.

Bennett

Double click LyX on Mac doesn't open LyX

2008-12-19 Thread David Mertens 
Hello -

I have a rather circuitous issue.  I'm a grad student.  My advisor is
generally a word guy but has agreed to use LyX at my request.  He's followed
the installation instructions multiple times (I've watched).  However, when
he double-clicks on the LyX listing in the Applications folder, we see the
icon fly-out (indicating to me that Mac has started the program) but it
never shows up, either on the screen or in the active-apps sidebar.  I would
troubleshoot this myself, but I'm a Linux/Windows guy and have no knowledge
of Macs.

So, where do I start?

Mac OS: 10.3.9
LyX Ver: 1.6.1

Re: Double click LyX on Mac doesn't open LyX

2008-12-19 Thread James Sutherland 

So, where do I start?

Mac OS: 10.3.9
LyX Ver: 1.6.1


Not the answer you want, but you might start by updating the OS.  I  
haven't had any trouble with OS 10.5.x.  10.3.x is pretty old...

Re: Double click LyX on Mac doesn't open LyX

2008-12-19 Thread Bennett Helm 
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:46 PM, James Sutherland
 wrote:
>> So, where do I start?
>>
>> Mac OS: 10.3.9
>> LyX Ver: 1.6.1
>
> Not the answer you want, but you might start by updating the OS.  I haven't
> had any trouble with OS 10.5.x.  10.3.x is pretty old...

We're actually uncertain as to whether 10.3.9 is supported. (We know
10.4 and 10.5 are.) You can try launching LyX from the Terminal
(/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) by entering:
/path/to/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx. Then when LyX crashes, report
back on what error message gets spit out in the Terminal.

Doing this may confirm for us that 10.3.9 is not supported.

Bennett