On 6/2/22 09:03, tush via lyx-users wrote:
Thank you very much once again, Riki.
I found the file and I can see it being updated after I apply changes
in the preferences menu inside LyX.
Where can I choose which preferences file to use? I want to save a
copy of such a file and save it in the project's directory. How do I
tell lyx to use that new file?
I can't see anything related to it in the menus.
Screen shot: https://i.ibb.co/cYyJdpk/screenshot.png
Ehud
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On Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 at 1:17 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck
<rikih...@lyx.org> wrote:
On 6/1/22 17:43, ehud.be...@protonmail.com wrote:
Thank you very much.
The last option you mentioned is the one I would like to adopt. But,
where is this preferences file located?
If you look under Help > About LyX, it will tell you where your user
directory is. The preferences file is in that directory. On Linux,
this is (by default) at $HOME/.lyx/. It is of course elsewhere on
Windows and OSX and also is, as I said, configurable at runtime via
the -userdir option.
Riki
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On Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at 5:27 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck
<rikih...@lyx.org> wrote:
On 5/31/22 16:42, tush via lyx-users wrote:
Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project.
Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX
settings?
We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer
something more technical.
I mean, the document settings are part of the file.
But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users.
Particularly, settings that are related to languages, font
encoding and shortcuts, for example, could change if an expert
user has made changes after the first installation.
I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to
my colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running
it they would have the same settings for LyX as me, the project
manager.
Is there such a thing?
Any document-specific settings are contained in the document
itself. So you do not have to worry about those. They will travel
with the document. You can see them yourself. Just open the LyX
file with a text editor. It will look something like this:
#LyX 2.4 created this file. For more info see https://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 608
\begin_document
\begin_header
\save_transient_properties true
\origin unavailable
\textclass paper
The document settings are in the header, which ends with \end_header.
The system-wide settings are all contained in text files that you
can find in your user directory, most importantly the 'preferences'
file. So to synchronize those, you just need to send that file to
other users. But I'm not sure that those are what you have in mind.
Note, by the way, that it is easy to use LyX with different
configurations. The '-userdir' flag lets you specify a user
directory, so your users could have one for use with this project
and a different one that they use for other things....if they want.
Riki
Riki covered this in the last paragraph of his first reply. Start LyX
from a command prompt with "-userdir <directory containing your
preferred preferences file>".
Paul
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