I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously.
When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt When I try to save a lyx document to my home directory, lyx complains when it presents its file browser dialog box. It says Could not read directory /fs-sj1-15 It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax "//." -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/