On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:29:22PM -0400, Thomas C. Meggs wrote:
> I'm compiling lyx for use on several systems. Some of them aren't able to
> use the /tmp directory in a manner that lyx would like. I was wondering if
> there was a way to compile in an alternate tmp directory, or compile in it

\tempdir_path usr/tmp

> not using a tmp directory at all. I am aware of the option \use_tempdir
> false and I added it to the file lyxrc.defaults, but it appears the lyx
> autoconf program doesn't care much about lyxrc.defaults. Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks. (:

If you change the settings for one user, use the preferences dialog.
If you need to set the default settings for many users, put a lyxrc file in
LYXDIR (e.g. /usr/share/lyx/lyxrc ).

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