Hi Günter and Liviu, thanks for all your hints. I found a way to get lyx working again:
* hide directory ~/.config mv .config dot.config * login again thus .config is newly generated making me loose my xfce configuration. But now LyX works again perfectly (as usual ;-) Then i tried to reactivate all the files in dot.config hoping to find the culprit, but nope: Although in the end i reactivated all my settings, the effect was gone and i could not reproduce it. Since i don't have the time to search intensively the cause of this effect i'm content to be able to work productively again and will not dwell any more into this problem. Just for sake of completeness see my answers to your questions resp suggestions below: Am 01.01.2011 22:48, schrieb Guenter Milde: > On 2010-12-30, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.berlios.de> >> wrote: >>> On 2010-12-30, Liviu Andronic wrote: >>>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Hellmut Weber <m...@hellmutweber.de> >>>> wrote: > > >>>>>>> which strangely changed the language of the menus to english, still >>>>>>> shown in greek letters. > >>> I suppose you have (accidentially?) set the UI font >>> (Werkzeuge>Einstellungen>Aussehen>Bilschirmschriften) to a Greek font >>> (or Symbol). IIRC i checked this possibility too, with no result. >> Isn't this font used for displaying the LyX document? Why would the >> setting affect menus and dialogues? > > You are right, the menu font is a QT setting. > > To the OP: > > * does this strange font selection also appear with other QT > applications (if they are started after lang=en)? LyX was to be the only application with this effect. My top ten apps are: LyX (for all sorts of text) thunderbird (email) firefox (browser) konqueror (navigation, exit to konsole) konsole (using computers since pre-GUI days ;-)) (these two because i've been using KDE for several years) OpenOffice (if i ever need an office suite MS files) gwenview (elementary image maniplation) kaffeine (video, dvb-t) ... > > * Are you running KDE? It provides a GUI for checking/setting system fonts. As mentioned before, actually i now use xfce, but with some KD-apps which i'm used to since quite some time Thanks again for your hints Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
