On Friday, December 23, 2022 1:18:00 PM PST Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> On 12/22/22 16:34, John White wrote:
> > Paul,
> >
> > I hope this bottom posted email goes. If not perhaps I am somehow
> > maxing out memory.
> >
> >
> > alt+T gives nothing, but perhaps something here might give you a clue
> > as to my problem:
> >
> >
> > johwhi@whitelaw:~$ cd /usr/share/lyx/ui
> >
> > johwhi@whitelaw:/usr/share/lyx/ui$ ls
> >
> > default.ui stdcontext.inc stdmenus.inc stdtoolbars.inc
> >
> > johwhi@whitelaw:/usr/share/lyx/ui$
> >
> >
> > I am attaching my default.ui file in case that shows something. It shows:
> >
> >
> > Toolbars
> >
> > "standard" "on,top"
> >
> > "view/update" "on,top"
> >
> > "extra" "on,top,samerow"
> >
> > "review" "auto,review,top"
> >
> > "vcs" "off,top"
> >
> > "table" "auto,table,bottom"
> >
> > "math_panels" "auto,math,bottom"
> >
> > "math" "auto,math,bottom"
> >
> > "mathmacrotemplate" "auto,mathmacrotemplate,bottom"
> >
> > "ipa" "auto,ipa,bottom"
> >
> > "minibuffer" "auto,minibuffer,bottom"
> >
> > "documentation" "off,top"
> >
> > End
> >
> >
> > Any other suggestions are appreciated. I wonder if perhaps something
> > might be wrong with my computer.
> >
> >
> >
> > John
>
> I want to make sure we are on the same page about one key thing: what
> you are missing is the main /menu bar/ (File menu etc.), not the top
> /tool bar/, correct?
>
> The toolbars section of default.ui controls which toolbars display by
> default. Earlier in the default.ui file, you'll see a line saying
> 'Include "stdmenus.inc"'. That loads the file that controls menus, and
> you can see in the "ls" output that it is present in the directory.
>
> Check that the directory ~/.lyx/ui is empty. If not, you may have a
> broken UI file be loaded in preference to the default one.
>
> Assuming that's not the case, try running LyX from a terminal with the
> command "lyx -dbg init". There will be a pile of messages in the
> terminal window. In particular, you should see the following (or
> something very close):
>
> frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (3058): About to read default...
> frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (3108): Found default in
> /usr/share/lyx/ui/default.ui
> frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (3058): About to read stdmenus.inc...
> frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp (3108): Found stdmenus.inc in
> /usr/share/lyx/ui/stdmenus.inc
>
> If you don't get the message about reading stdmenus.inc, then the--
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