On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Richard Heck wrote:
Easiest way: Open your user preferences file in a text editor. (Look at Help> About LyX if you need to find your user directory.
Richard, I see nothing in Help > About LyX germane to user preferences, other than /usr/share/lyx/.
Open the "preferences" file from that directory.)
This is where I'm stuck. I am not finding a preferences file here: /usr/share/lyx/# ls CREDITS doc/ languages syntax.default RELEASE-NOTES encodings latexfonts templates/ autocorrect examples/ layouts/ tex/ bind/ external_templates layouttranslations ui/ chkconfig.ltx fonts/ lyx2lyx/ unicodesymbols commands/ images/ scripts/ xfonts/ configure.py* kbd/ symbols Rich