On Friday 22 September 2006 18:24, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > (Note: I have not tested the following.) I think you can edit > .../Resources/ui/stdmenus.ui and add a new Item to the edit menu, > something like > > Item "Toggle read-only|Q" "buffer-toggle-read-only"
That works! I made a copy of /usr/share/lyx/ui/stdmenus.ui to ~/.lyx/ui/ and included the Item as you suggested (using "T" instead of "Q" as shortcut) and it works. Now I can happily toggle to and fro the read-only mode... Thanks a lot, Paul. > > (perhaps changing Q to a more salubrious hot key, or omitting it). I > would save the hacked file in the ui subfolder under your home > directory, so that it would survive reinstallations and upgrades. > > On the other hand, the path of least resistance might be simply to use > File->New from template... to open documents you don't want to modify. > The resulting file is writable, but it gets a default name (e.g. > newfile1.lyx), so inadvertently saving it will at worst clutter your > drive a bit. > > /Paul -- Rudi Gaelzer Departamento de Física Instituto de Física e Matemática Fundação Universidade Federal de Pelotas Caixa Postal 354 - Campus UFPel 96010-900 Pelotas - RS Fone: (53) 3275-7416 FAX: (53) 3275-7343 Usuário de Linux registrado # 153741
