LyX now won't display text on screen

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 12/6/19 2:57 PM, John O'Gorman wrote:
> On 06/12/2019 06:07, Kornel Benko wrote:
>> Am Thu, 5 Dec 2019 11:37:52 -0500
>> schrieb "Paul A. Rubin"<parubin73 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> b
>> Maybe better to check your screen-font settings.
>> Check in the userdir:
>> $egrep screen_zoom preferences
>> (100 is default)
>>
>> Normally it is set by
>> Tools->Preferences...->Look & Feel->Screen Fonts->Default zoom%
>>
>> 	Kornel
>>
> Thanks for the replies so far - but they are not the solution!
>
> I did try creating a new user - that worked! and for the new user LyX 
> worked as normal.
>
> Under my normal user name, I found that the file ~.lyx/preferences 
> existed but using the LyX interface to alter thinks made no difference.
>
> Default Zoom seems by default to be 150%. Changing it to 100% made no 
> apparent difference
>
> Removing the preferences file and reinvoking LyX resulted in a new 
> preferences file being created but again no change of behaviour.
>
> We seem to have established that the problem is not in the LyX files 
> but somewhere in the user directory.
>
> Any further suggestions would be welcome.
>
>
> Regards
>
> John O'Gorman
>
>
Try backing up the user directory and then deleting it. When you open 
LyX, it will create a new user directory. Test things, and if it works 
okay, add back files that don't affect the UI (custom layouts, keyboard 
bindings, ...) from the backup copy.

Paul

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