Problem solved :-) Thanks to everyone, and particularly to Julio for pointing me in the right direction. As he guessed, the problem was not with Lyx, but with the environment that Kde works with. I always launch my applications from Krunner (the little Kde app that offer a command line-like mini-screen). After a lot of searching, I discovered that:
1. Krunner uses the PATH variables set by startkde (the script that starts the KDE desktop) 2. startkde does two things, path-wise: a - first it uses the PATH settings it inherits from the process it is run from; b - then it looks for executable (i.e scripts) files in kde's /env directories (e.g. in $HOME/.kde4/env and other env dirs system wide) c - it runs any executable files it finds 3. To align the PATH variable in a bash shell (which I set in .profile and .bash_profile) with krunner's, I wrote a one-line file which exports the correct path, called it profile.sh, made it executable, and put it in a newly created dir ~HOME/.kde4/env after logging out and restarting kde, lyx now finds TL2011 when launched from a shell and from Krunner. Thanks to everyone. Cheers, Stefano On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Paul Rubin <ru...@msu.edu> wrote: > In LyX, could Tools > Preferences > Paths > PATH prefix be pointing to the old > version? > > Paul > > > -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA
