LyX now won't display text on screen

Paul A. Rubin parubin73 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 16:37:52 UTC 2019


On 12/4/19 8:48 PM, John O'Gorman wrote:
> Hi
>
> Help!
>
> After messing about with trying to insert 2 jpeg  images, I now cannot 
> see any of the text.
>
> It is still there and appears when I convert to PDF via pdflatex.
>
> In LyX itself, where the text should be there are brownish thin lines.
>
> I've looked at the lyx file itself (with vi) and cannot see anything 
> wrong.
>
> The same file copied to other Linux machines and an iMac all still 
> behave OK under LyX.
>
> My machine is an Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro running LyX 2.3.3 on OpenSUSE 
> tumbleweed
>
> We've already reinstalled LyX and LateX - no difference
>
> I would be grateful for any suggestions?
>
> Regards
>
> John O'Gorman
When you reinstalled LyX, did you get rid of your user directory?

If you can switch to a different user account on your machine, does that 
account also get the garbled display?

Paul



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