Sorry guys for my late response. Have been offline for a day. Also it took extremely long, until my original post became visible at the email-list, so I had almost forgotten about it... Firstly, a short remark: I have discovered that after deleting the file ".lyx/session", I could restart lyx. Funny enough, it startet correctly in fullscreen. So the fullscreen-information alone was not what prevented lyx from starting...
Secondly, an answer to Pavels question > you havent answered my question about checkinstall. I am really sorry, I have now seen that you posted several answers to my questions. Somehow they appeared only with delay (in the mailing-list, they are listed much earlier than messages that I had already noticed), and in addition, I did not obtain a copy. You sent them only to the list? Anyway, thanks for the checkinstall-hint. I had figured out in the meantime that this might be the reason. So last time I used it, I used the option -d2 (debug-level 2), which however, has not changed too much.. There would also be an option --strip, which, according to the manpage, toggles the stripping of the binaries. Probably I should try this, but I did not find any information about the default-value. > can you post the result of > ls -lh `which lyx` > (replace "lyx" by the exact command you run it) Is this the output you want? ~/.lyx-1.6.0svn$ ls -lh /usr/local/bin/lyx-1.6.0svn -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13M 2007-11-18 11:48 /usr/local/bin/lyx-1.6.0svn Best, Sebastian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.