I have the same configuration and if I choose Times New Roman as the screen font and click on apply, my Lyx screen shows Times.
Very strange... Maybe you should relaunch Lyx after having renamed your user folder and try again to change the screen font? Murat 2011/12/6 William Mullin <mul...@physics.umass.edu> > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: William Mullin <mul...@physics.umass.edu> > > Subject: Re: Screen fonts in 2.0.2 > > Date: December 6, 2011 5:30:53 PM EST > > To: Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> > > > >> > >>> Dear Lyx folks > >>> > >>> I downloaded Lyx 2.0.2 and the default screen font is a sans serif > font. I went to Preferences to change back to my favored Times font as I > use in 1.6.8, but nothing I do there has any effect. What's the deal? How > do I change to Times as a screen font? > >>> > >> Have you tried Tools > Prefs > Look & Feel > Screen Fonts, and change > >> all families for 'Times'? If it still doesn't work, tell us exactly > >> what you select and where; and what you expect, and what happens. > > > > When I pull down Tools I get a menu that has Spellchecker, Thesaurus, > Statistics, Tex Information, and Compare. IN 2.0.2 I find that menu at > Lyx>Prefs>Look and Feel>Screen Fonts and that is where I had gone. I > clicked on the Times font there and choose Apply. Nothing happens. > I am using Mac OS10.7.2 > > WJM > > > +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-*-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ > > | William J. Mullin Professor Emeritus of Physics > | > > | Department of Physics Hasbrouck Lab > | > > | University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-3720 | > > | Internet address: mul...@physics.umass.edu | > > | Voice: 413-545-0822 > | > > | Fax: 413-545-1691 > | > > | Home page: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~wmullin/ | > > +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-*-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ > > > > > > > > +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-*-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ > | William J. Mullin Professor Emeritus of Physics | > | Department of Physics Hasbrouck Lab > | > | University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-3720 | > | Internet address: mul...@physics.umass.edu | > | Voice: 413-545-0822 > | > | Fax: 413-545-1691 > | > | Home page: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~wmullin/ | > +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-*-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ > > > > -- Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) Avenue Léon Duguit 33608 Pessac cedex France yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr http://yildizoglu.info http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu