top tool bar not available

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 12/21/22 14:29, John White wrote:
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> Thank you Paul very much for the suggestion.  It caused me to think 
> that something might be wrong with permissions.  So I opened lyx in 
> root and the top tool bar shows.  It only doesn't show when I open it 
> on a regular, non-root command line or from the lyx icon.
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> I am not sure where the system menu is.  Lyx can be used without the 
> top menu bar but it will only print to one pdf version.
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>
> John
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> On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 11:09:52 AM PST Paul A. Rubin wrote:
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> > On 12/19/22 14:44, John White wrote:
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> > > So I removed lyx and lyx common and reinstalled on my debian bullfrog
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> > > system.  This is what I get now when trying to open Lyx:
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> > >
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> > > /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop is not a readable LYX document.
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> > >
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> > >
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> > > Any suggestions?
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> > >
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> > >
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> > > John
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> >
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> > Are you launching LyX from a terminal or from the system menu. If the
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> > menu, try editing the system menu entry. I would not be surprised if it
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> > somehow ended up using the command "lyx /usr/share/.../lyx.desktop",
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> > which would launch LyX and try to open the desktop file as a document.
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> >
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> > Paul
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>
John,

Please bottom-post on stuff going to the list.

There are two different pathologies here (likely unrelated), the missing 
top toolbar and the "not readable" error message referring to the 
desktop file. My comment about the system menu was related to the 
latter. I don't use Debian (I'm on Mint), but if you have a button that 
you use to launch a menu of available programs, that's what I mean. You 
mentioned using the command line or a "LyX icon". Do you get the error 
message both ways or just using the icon?

As far as the top toolbar goes, is it actually the /top toolbar/ you are 
missing (buttons for selecting environments, creating/opening files, 
applying italics and other fun stuff) or the /menu bar/ (File menu, Edit 
menu etc.)? The subject line says toolbar but you mentioned "menu bar".

Paul
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