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 > > -- > Dr. Hellmut Weber [email protected] > Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 > D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 > please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
