No menus in Lyx 2

2011-07-12 Thread ehud.kap...@gmail.com

How come I do not see the menus in Lyx 2 (RC3) under Ubuntu 11.04 (32 bits)?
All the icons are there, but not the usual menus.
EK




Re: No menus in Lyx 2

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 02:15:11 PM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
 How come I do not see the menus in Lyx 2 (RC3) under Ubuntu 11.04
 (32 bits)? All the icons are there, but not the usual menus.
 EK

Hi Ehud,

I had 2.0RC3 on Ubuntu 11.04, and the menus showed.

But...

The RC3 that came with Ubuntu had several other problems on my box, 
and the LyX-users people clued me in that RC3 was defective. I went 
onto the LyX website, downloaded source for 2.0.0, compiled it, and it 
worked perfectly.

Because of all sorts of wierd dependencies, most about Qt4, as 
expected, you're going to require many tries to compile it, and 
because each compile leaves leftovers that can screw up the next 
compile, I figured my best bet was to make a compile script so I could 
do it again and again on a clean tree. Here's the script:


#!/bin/bash
rm -rf lyx-2.0.0
tar xJvf  lyx-2.0.0.tar.xz
cd lyx-2.0.0
./configure --with-version-suffix=200 --enable-build-type=release  --
with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4


Once I got the preceding to work, make was simply a half hour compile. 
I then ran src/lyx to make sure it was OK, and then did make install.

Now here's the thing. At one point, after it just kept crying about 
Qt4 and some other dependencies, I just did a Hail Mary and installed 
almost every package having to do with Qt4. One of them must have done 
the trick, because it compiled. Ugly, but it worked.

So in summary, my experience with LyX-2.0.0RC3 on Ubuntu 11.04 was 
different from yours in that I had menus, but probably just as 
negative. RC3 was junk and should be replaced on the principle of 
quality. I installed LyX-2.0.0 from source, and LyX is now doing every 
single thing my business needs it to do.

HTH

StevET

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt



No menus in Lyx 2

2011-07-12 Thread ehud.kap...@gmail.com

How come I do not see the menus in Lyx 2 (RC3) under Ubuntu 11.04 (32 bits)?
All the icons are there, but not the usual menus.
EK




Re: No menus in Lyx 2

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 02:15:11 PM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
 How come I do not see the menus in Lyx 2 (RC3) under Ubuntu 11.04
 (32 bits)? All the icons are there, but not the usual menus.
 EK

Hi Ehud,

I had 2.0RC3 on Ubuntu 11.04, and the menus showed.

But...

The RC3 that came with Ubuntu had several other problems on my box, 
and the LyX-users people clued me in that RC3 was defective. I went 
onto the LyX website, downloaded source for 2.0.0, compiled it, and it 
worked perfectly.

Because of all sorts of wierd dependencies, most about Qt4, as 
expected, you're going to require many tries to compile it, and 
because each compile leaves leftovers that can screw up the next 
compile, I figured my best bet was to make a compile script so I could 
do it again and again on a clean tree. Here's the script:


#!/bin/bash
rm -rf lyx-2.0.0
tar xJvf  lyx-2.0.0.tar.xz
cd lyx-2.0.0
./configure --with-version-suffix=200 --enable-build-type=release  --
with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4


Once I got the preceding to work, make was simply a half hour compile. 
I then ran src/lyx to make sure it was OK, and then did make install.

Now here's the thing. At one point, after it just kept crying about 
Qt4 and some other dependencies, I just did a Hail Mary and installed 
almost every package having to do with Qt4. One of them must have done 
the trick, because it compiled. Ugly, but it worked.

So in summary, my experience with LyX-2.0.0RC3 on Ubuntu 11.04 was 
different from yours in that I had menus, but probably just as 
negative. RC3 was junk and should be replaced on the principle of 
quality. I installed LyX-2.0.0 from source, and LyX is now doing every 
single thing my business needs it to do.

HTH

StevET

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt



No menus in Lyx 2

2011-07-12 Thread ehud.kap...@gmail.com

How come I do not see the menus in Lyx 2 (RC3) under Ubuntu 11.04 (32 bits)?
All the icons are there, but not the usual menus.
EK




Re: No menus in Lyx 2

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 02:15:11 PM ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote:
> How come I do not see the menus in Lyx 2 (RC3) under Ubuntu 11.04
> (32 bits)? All the icons are there, but not the usual menus.
> EK

Hi Ehud,

I had 2.0RC3 on Ubuntu 11.04, and the menus showed.

But...

The RC3 that came with Ubuntu had several other problems on my box, 
and the LyX-users people clued me in that RC3 was defective. I went 
onto the LyX website, downloaded source for 2.0.0, compiled it, and it 
worked perfectly.

Because of all sorts of wierd dependencies, most about Qt4, as 
expected, you're going to require many tries to compile it, and 
because each compile leaves leftovers that can screw up the next 
compile, I figured my best bet was to make a compile script so I could 
do it again and again on a clean tree. Here's the script:


#!/bin/bash
rm -rf lyx-2.0.0
tar xJvf  lyx-2.0.0.tar.xz
cd lyx-2.0.0
./configure --with-version-suffix=200 --enable-build-type=release  --
with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4


Once I got the preceding to work, make was simply a half hour compile. 
I then ran src/lyx to make sure it was OK, and then did make install.

Now here's the thing. At one point, after it just kept crying about 
Qt4 and some other dependencies, I just did a Hail Mary and installed 
almost every package having to do with Qt4. One of them must have done 
the trick, because it compiled. Ugly, but it worked.

So in summary, my experience with LyX-2.0.0RC3 on Ubuntu 11.04 was 
different from yours in that I had menus, but probably just as 
negative. RC3 was junk and should be replaced on the principle of 
quality. I installed LyX-2.0.0 from source, and LyX is now doing every 
single thing my business needs it to do.

HTH

StevET

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt