David L. Johnson wrote:
Hello again, folks.
It's been a long while since I have been subscribed to these lists, since the development of LyX had well outdistanced my skills. But now I find myself with a problem I can't seem to solve.
My home machine, running a current image of debian-testing, has a problem with some fonts being invisible under LyX. For example, when I go to the File -> Save As menu, the box with the filename in it is blank. I can place the cursor at various spots in the box, so the characters are there, they are just invisible. I can type, and the changes show up on the filename when I save, for example. Same thing in, say, the Layout -> Document -> Margins. I can set the margins, but I cannot see what I type.
I tried fiddling with the background colors to no avail.
Problem started with 1.3.1 -- but not when I installed it. This began
after an update of my OS, and I have been living with this for a while. I just grabbed 1.3.2 and compiled it, no help. Tried updating again, no
help.
I have not updated the OS on my office machine, and 1.3.1 works fine there. I still have 1.2 on my home machine, and that also does not show this problem.
I looked through the archives of this list but saw no mention of this
problem.
I am guessing that something is misconfigured. But when I went to 1.3.2, as is my custom I moved ~/.lyx to ~/.lyx-1.3.1, along with similar changes to /usr/local/share/lyx and /usr/local/bin/lyx, so there should be nothing that knows anything about my previous configuration of lyx. New version again has these invisible fonts.
Any clue as to what to look at would be greatly appreciated. I see
nowhere where these specific fonts are configured; that would be a place
to start. Maybe I am missing the proper font in the distribution. But
xlsfonts lists a bucketload of font names.
