> [I]s a way to make math symbol panels always appear as a toolbar in
> the toolbar areas of the LyX GUI window? Many other editing software
> display math symbol panels as a horizontal bar on the toolbar area so
> it is easily accessible. Currently in LyX I have to right click in the
> math equation box, and scroll down a few menu items to find the symbol
> that I want. This is quite troublesome.
I'm not sure you'd really want to do quite that: The math panel has
dozens of things on it, and that would make for a very large toolbar!
However, that said, the toolbars are easily editable. Look at the file
stdtoolbars.ui and, in particular, at the math toolbar that is defined
there and you will see what is possible: You can put whatever symbols
you like on the toolbar, and do much else besides.
The best way to proceed here is to create a new file---say,
mytoolbars.ui---in your local LyX
directory---/home/you/.lyx/ui/mytoolbars.ui, say---and create whatever
toolbars you want in that file. Then copy default.ui or classic.ui,
whichever you are using, to /home/you/.lyx/ui/ as well and add the line
Include "mytoolbars.ui"
Then, in the Toolbars section, include a line like:
"mymath" "on,top"
to put your math toolbar on top and on by default.
Richard
