Leo, I believe this to be a bug. See my experience at https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10420
I recommend you post there with your experience. Hopefully it will gain visibility and get addressed soon. - Joel On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 5:41 AM, Leo Razoumov <slonik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi LyX Experts, > > I am a new LyX user. I installed Lyx-2.2.1 from the official > LyX-2.2.1+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg installer on Mac OSX El Capitan > (version 10.11.6). Everything seems to be working OK except for one > issue. > > I cannot change any of the screen colors. > I open LyX->Preferences->Look&Feel->Colors and get a list of colors. > Double clicking a color (or clicking Alter... button) brings up color > choosing dialog. In this dialog I can pick a color I like. But when I > press OK button, both the color-choosing dialog and the Preferences > dialog itself disappear without a trace. My choices are not > remembered. Am I doing something wrong or it is a bug? > > Thanks, > -- Leo >