Paul Clark wrote: >> Run lyx from a command line (konsole, gnome-terminal, etc), and it should >> spew out the nitty-gritty details of what is going on behind the scenes >> (in >> particular, most of the (la)tex runs). Hopefully, that will give a clue. > I ran it from the gnome-terminal. Not a single message comes out on > start up or while trying to print. I found I could reproduce the problem, if the directory containing the .lyx document is not writable. Why? lyx runs latex behind the scenes, which needs to create intermediate <file>.(aux|log|dvi|ps|pdf) files in the same directory as the open .lyx document. -- Rex
