*The file should go into ~/.lyx/ui/, or (more generally) the ui/* * subdirectory of whatever your LyX user directory is. *
I have not the slightest idea why but I dropped the *stdtoolbars.inc* file back into the ~/.lyx/ui directory this morning and it worked! Perhaps the computer shutdown and overnight rest cured it? I have heard it worked for Model T Fords. Thanks for reassuring me that I was not totally clueless here and that it was worth a second (well 15th) try. On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 22:17, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 2/6/19 9:18 PM, John Kane wrote: > > I have done a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04 and am restoring some > > software customizations. I have a modified stdtoolbars.inc file for > > LyX that I wish to use. > > > > Relying on the LyX wiki and a shaky memory of the last time I did this > > I thought that I could just create a ui sub-directory in my > > ~/.zotero directory and drop the stdtoolbars.inc file into it. > > > > Am I wrong or am I missing out some critical step in the process? > > Note the stdtoolbars.inc file should work as it is simply a back-up > > copy of the one I was using before the new OS installation. > > The file should go into ~/.lyx/ui/, or (more generally) the ui/ > subdirectory of whatever your LyX user directory is. Yet more generally, > any customization goes into the same subdirectory of your user directory > that the original file is in relative to the LyX system directory. So a > modified cua.bind would go into ~/.lyx/bind/. > > Riki > > > -- John Kane Kingston ON Canada
