I learned that some GUI settings left over from years ago still have an effect if I'm not using a theme. And sometimes those settings and the theme don't play together well. OTOH, I'm not using a theme just now because there are a few things I don't like in the current dark theme but I haven't figured out what to change to fix them. My old settings give me an appearance I like (though it's not a dark theme), so I'm sticking with them for now.
On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 1:51:25 PM UTC-5 poseidon wrote: > Thank you, Edward! > > myLeoSettings.leo is the only myLeoSettings.leo on my machine. > > Well, after playing around I found out that replacing DefaultTheme by None > in my settings did the trick. This means, that themes change font settings > and the like, too. Checked that by inspecting themes files (e.g. > EKRLight.leo). Makes sense, but then, why having those settings in > myLeoSettings as well? This makes the whole config'ing of Leo rather > complex, doesn't it? > > Cheers > Paul, being happy again for now :-) > > On Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 3:46:27 PM UTC+1 Edward K. Ream wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 7:08 AM poseidon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I upgraded Leo from 6.1 to 6.3. As a result I couldn't recognize my >> Leo anymore, everything different, all my settings seemed gone. Simply >> opening myLeoSettings seemed to help, but that change wasn't persistent >> after closing Leo. >> >> First, my apologies for the trouble you are having. >> >> [big snip] >> > Any idea, what's going on? >> >> Perhaps Leo isn't finding your myLeoSettings.leo. See below. >> >> > Why does Leo look for settings in my workbook twice? >> >> When I open Leo, the log pane contains this (among other things): >> >> reading settings in C:/leo.repo/leo-editor/leo/config/leoSettings.leo >> reading settings in C:/Users/edreamleo/.leo/myLeoSettings.leo >> reading settings in c:/leo.repo/leo-editor/leo/core/leoPy.leo (read file >> for settings) >> reading settings in C:/Users/edreamleo/.leo/EKRWindowsDark.leo >> reading settings in c:/leo.repo/leo-editor/leo/core/leoPy.leo (reread >> the file) >> Yes, that's right. After reading the settings files, Leo *re-reads* the >> .leo files that appear on the command line. This ensures that all settings >> are properly applied. >> >> *My advice* >> >> 1. Make sure Leo is loading the correct copy of myLeoSettings.leo. This >> page <http://leoeditor.com/customizing.html#configuration-directories> >> tells where Leo looks for settings files. >> >> 2. Once you know that Leo is loading the right myLeoSettings.leo file, >> make a copy of your old myLeoSettings.leo file, and remove all the settings >> for the "active" myLeoSettings.leo file. >> >> 3. Don't open myLeoSettings.leo *in addition* to other files. That will >> just confuse you. >> >> 4. Now you can run some experiments: >> >> A. Open myLeoSettings.leo *all by itself.* >> B. Open some other file, say x.leo with Leo, all by itself, just to see >> what x.leo looks like. >> C. Change myLeoSettings.leo. >> D. Close x.leo and reopen x.leo. >> >> Repeat until x.leo looks right. >> >> HTH. Please feel free to ask more questions. >> >> Edward >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/45c6028a-d169-437e-adbe-94a308fce627n%40googlegroups.com.
