Math menus at bottom of screen do not work

[Fridrik Baldursson]

Hi,

I work with Lyx for OS X El Capitan vs. 10.11. I tried downloading and
reinstalling Lyx before posting this but the problem remains. 

The problem is that when I try to enter mathematical formulas using the
menus at the bottom of the screen (e.g. greek letters, arrows,
equality/inequality relations etc.) nothing happens: I click on a symbol,
e.g. alpha, with no result. I am not sure, but I think this started after I
installed El Capitan recently - Lyx has worked perfectly on my Mac for some
years now.

I've seen reports on this list of problems - different from this one - after
El Capitan installation and the remedy seems to be to remove something
called System Integrity Protection. I have not tried this - not sure how to
do it - and it seems like a really bad solution to the problem.

Hope someone can help!

Fridrik

Re: Math menus at bottom of screen do not work

[Stephan Witt]

Am 27.10.2015 um 10:29 schrieb Fridrik Baldursson :

> Hi,
> 
> I work with Lyx for OS X El Capitan vs. 10.11. I tried downloading and
> reinstalling Lyx before posting this but the problem remains. 
> 
> The problem is that when I try to enter mathematical formulas using the
> menus at the bottom of the screen (e.g. greek letters, arrows,
> equality/inequality relations etc.) nothing happens: I click on a symbol,
> e.g. alpha, with no result. I am not sure, but I think this started after I
> installed El Capitan recently - Lyx has worked perfectly on my Mac for some
> years now.
> 
> I've seen reports on this list of problems - different from this one - after
> El Capitan installation and the remedy seems to be to remove something
> called System Integrity Protection. I have not tried this - not sure how to
> do it - and it seems like a really bad solution to the problem.

It's already reported that the font problems are not solved by disabling SIP.

> Hope someone can help!

At the moment, there is no help available, sorry.
There is only the option to wait for the upcoming LyX 2.2 release, AFAIK.

Stephan