On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
It looks as if you have a customized version of classic.ui here. Try deleting (or moving) it. It seems as if it must have some strange characters in it.
Riki, It used to work but apparently no longer. And, ... removing ~/.lyx/ui/classic.ui allows lyx to load (version 2.3.6 restored from incremetal backup of a day a couple of weeks ago. The font is still small and changing the background color and reconfiguring doesn't change the color. FWIW, a visual 'busy' indicator while the application's reconfiguring would be really useful. It's working well enough now to be used. I'll futz with font size and changing the too-bright white background as time permits. Thanks for your help. Stay well, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users