Problems with LyX on Mac computers

[Christopher Menzel]

On Jan 22, 2023, at 10:48 AM, mark salmon <markhsalmon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Marcus in your reply to Ed Burmeister you said there are 2 installers for Lyx 2.3.7- for macs- one for old and one for new versions of MacOS .....I don't think I saw this when installing 2.3.7 I just chose the one option I saw in front of me-

The two installers are not for older and newer versions of MacOS, they are for older and newer Macs — older machines have Intel chips while newer machines have Apple Silicon (M1 and M2 chips). The installer for the universal LyX binary, which will run on either platform, includes the string “x86_64-arm64”; the installer for the Intel-only binary only includes the substring “x86_64”. In fact, both installers and both binaries will run on both older and newer machines (although, of course, the Intel binary requires the mediation of Rosetta on Apple Silicon machines). I suppose the Intel-only binary is a bit smaller and perhaps runs a bit faster on an Intel Mac, but would think the differences would be negligible (but I could be wrong).

> could this be the source of the graphics problem?

No. The problem arises under Ventura no matter which LyX binary you use.

Chris Menzel

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