Thanks Nirmal, just for the record, one does need to run reconfigure in
Lyx to make it appear in the Doc class list.
By the way, beamer class is impressive piece of work.
bill
> > When I opened lyx again, beamer does not appear in the Doc class choices
> > although it does appear in the Tex configuration.
>
> You need to have a LyX .layout file corresponding to the class
> you're installing.. the .layout file needs to go in your
> .lyx/layouts/ folder. Luckily enough, the beamer class author does
> provide the LyX .layout file along with the tarball.. check in the
> lyx (or maybe LyX, can't remember) folder.. put that in the folder
> mentioned above and you should see it in the dropdown menu (I don't
> think you need to run LyX's reconfigure for this but if it doesn't
> appear, then do try running reconfigure)...
>
> nirmal
