On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Another question regarding lyx. If you check the configure script, > you see that there is an option for selecting a GUI for lyx other > than based on xforms (which is quite ugly and motif-ish). There is > an option for qt2 and gtk-based frontends. Woo-hoo! Or so I thought. > I have all the devel libs for qt2 and gtk installed yet no matter what > switches I use, no matter what I do, it is seemingly impossible to build > anyting other than an xforms-based frontend for lyx. Have any Mandrake > developers ever managed to build one of these alternative frontends? > If you haven't even tried...perhaps it would be a good thing to try? > Since the default environment for Mandrake is KDE, a qt-frontend for > lyx and all other apps that have such an option seems to be the most > logical choice. Just curious if anyone has managed a nicer frontend > for lyx than the default xforms version.
Try the package 'klyx'. It has a somewhat nicer interface than lyx.
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