Am Dienstag, den 24.07.2018, 16:05 -0700 schrieb list_em...@icloud.com:
> This is an old problem that I know I filed a ticket on years ago. 

You remember which?

> The dialog for Cross References attempts to display the entire path
> to the file in a pop-up menu, regardless of how long the file path
> is. At the same time, in an attempt to display the long pop-up menu
> item, the width of the dialog box is adjusted, apparently without
> limit. The width can easily exceed the width of the screen. The user
> can, with patience, drag the dialog box so that the right edge is
> visible and can thus click on OK or Cancel or Apply, but attempts to
> drag the right side of the box to the left and thus make the box
> narrower, fail, as resizing is not allowed. This behavior persists
> even if the current file path is not long, but a previously opened
> long file path remains as a pop-up option. 

Interesting. Here (Linux, LyX 2.3.1svn), the path is truncated. Which
version of LyX is that?

> (Why do old file names live in this menu anyway?)

These are only all opened buffers (including those opened in "hidden"
state).

> This isn’t how things are supposed to work. A long string for a pop-
> up menu item is supposed to be truncated and terminated with an
> ellipse, …, and hovering over the truncated string should show a
> tooltip with the entire string.

I agree. Maybe some Mac-specific problem?

Jürgen

> 
> Jerry
> 
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