Debian 12 and Lyx 2.3.7-1

[Folsk Pratima]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2023 15:58:50 +0000
Peter<peter.northerly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for all the suggestions.  I have tried lots of window managers
> now and come to the end of time and energy. Need to get on with the
> work and stop tinkering.  I've created a new user and tried with that
> - didn't help.  I haven't found a different window manager I can live
> with that will run Lyx. ICEWM is the closest. I'll make one more
> effort, create a VM and try a clean Debian install, and if it works,
> use that.  And if that doesn't work, go back to Open Office.  Not
> great, but it can be made to do the job.
> 
> I'm starting to suspect it may have something to do with Wayland.  Or
> it could be NVidia as Steve suggests, at this point its beyond me. I
> have looked at Kile and Texworks but they both (esp Texworks) are a
> project in themselves to learn.  That was so nice about Lyx, I could
> just write, structure and then export.  It was great while it lasted.
>  
> 
> Just to reply on FLWM, I had tried the crystal version. So next tried
> the base version.  The base version does load but with lots of error
> messages which makes me nervous.  But I can't do with FLWM as my WM.
> 
> The second time I've been snookered by using a rather specialist
> authoring tool. The other was Scrivener, which was great - until they
> dropped Linux!
> 
> I'll give a new Debian VM a try and then have to give up.
> 
> Peter

Man, if you really care so much about your favourite window manager you
/really/ can just go to
http://lists.lyx.org/pipermail/lyx-devel/2023-November/011000.html
and actually help developers to address this issue with fluxbox.