On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Hellmut Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi list,
> I frecently switched to xubuntu
> and installed lyx using the command
>
> apt-get install lyx
>
> I worked fine fro a while, as usual ;-)
>
> Now it seems that I have changed something in the settings of xfce with
> the effect that lyx starts with all the menus in **greek** letters for
> the gernam entries.
>
I wouldn't expect Xfce settings to have impact on LyX. It's either
more general---some Qt or system wide modifications---or more
specific---something relating to LyX only.


> System: xubuntu 10.10
> Lyx: 1.6.7-r1
> locale: de_DE.UTF-8
>
> I have searched all reasonable files in ~/.lyx and in /usr/share/lyx.
> I also tried commands like
>
> LANG="de_DE" lyx
>
I've never seen this have an effect on LyX.


> which strangely changed the language of the menus to english, still
> shown in greek letters.
>
This is very strange. By any chance have you changed Tools > Prefs >
Language > UI language?


> Next I reinstalled lyx
>
> apt-get autoremove lyx
>
> which should have deleted all configuration files (according to the
> apt-get man-page). Then reinstallad it. Same effect again (greek letters)
>
Have you additionally (re)moved ~/.lyx? I don't think that apt-get
catches that.


> Since I don't have any ecperience with xubuntu so far, I'm totally lost
> for the moment.
>
> Anybody of experience with xubuntu could point out some setting I have
> set erroneously?
>
I'm using Xubuntu 10.04 without any such fireworks in either 1.6.7 or
2.0.0 beta2.
l...@liv-laptop:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

A couple more wild guesses, check qtconfig-qt4 for anything related,
and perhaps try using some different font family there. Regards
Liviu


> TIA
>
> Hellmut
>
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