Re: Settings file for lyx

[Kornel Benko]

Am Sat, 04 Jun 2022 14:34:10 +
schrieb tush via lyx-users :

> It might be a bit unrelated to my question but I am very interested to know:
> 
> I tried now to see what changes does ticking the mark on "Apply changes to 
> current
> session only" do. I don't see any changes to the preferences file in my user 
> directory
> and no additional commands appended to the header of my lyx file.
> 
> In what file are those changes being listed?
> 
> Thank you.

As the message states: "to current session only", so no need to save the 
changed values to
a file.

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Re: Settings file for lyx

[tush via lyx-users]

It might be a bit unrelated to my question but I am very interested to know:

I tried now to see what changes does ticking the mark on "Apply changes to 
current session only" do. I don't see any changes to the preferences file in my 
user directory and no additional commands appended to the header of my lyx file.

In what file are those changes being listed?

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Re: Settings file for lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 6/2/22 09:03, tush via lyx-users wrote:

Thank you very much once again, Riki.

I found the file and I can see it being updated after I apply changes 
in the preferences menu inside LyX.


Where can I choose which preferences file to use? I want to save a 
copy of such a file and save it in the project's directory. How do I 
tell lyx to use that new file?

I can't see anything related to it in the menus.

Screen shot: https://i.ibb.co/cYyJdpk/screenshot.png

Ehud

--- Original Message ---
On Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 at 1:17 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck 
 wrote:



On 6/1/22 17:43, ehud.be...@protonmail.com wrote:

Thank you very much.

The last option you mentioned is the one I would like to adopt. But, 
where is this preferences file located?


If you look under Help > About LyX, it will tell you where your user 
directory is. The preferences file is in that directory. On Linux, 
this is (by default) at $HOME/.lyx/. It is of course elsewhere on 
Windows and OSX and also is, as I said, configurable at runtime via 
the -userdir option.


Riki





--- Original Message ---
On Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at 5:27 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck 
 wrote:



On 5/31/22 16:42, tush via lyx-users wrote:

Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project.
Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX 
settings?
We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer 
something more technical.


I mean, the document settings are part of the file.
But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users. 
Particularly, settings that are related to languages, font 
encoding and shortcuts, for example, could change if an expert 
user has made changes after the first installation.


I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to 
my colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running 
it they would have the same settings for LyX as me, the project 
manager.


Is there such a thing?


Any document-specific settings are contained in the document 
itself. So you do not have to worry about those. They will travel 
with the document. You can see them yourself. Just open the LyX 
file with a text editor. It will look something like this:


#LyX 2.4 created this file. For more info see https://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 608
\begin_document
\begin_header
\save_transient_properties true
\origin unavailable
\textclass paper

The document settings are in the header, which ends with \end_header.

The system-wide settings are all contained in text files that you 
can find in your user directory, most importantly the 'preferences' 
file. So to synchronize those, you just need to send that file to 
other users. But I'm not sure that those are what you have in mind.


Note, by the way, that it is easy to use LyX with different 
configurations. The '-userdir' flag lets you specify a user 
directory, so your users could have one for use with this project 
and a different one that they use for other thingsif they want.


Riki









Riki covered this in the last paragraph of his first reply. Start LyX 
from a command prompt with "-userdir preferred preferences file>".


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Re: Settings file for lyx

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

You are not listening.

Don't do this, there is no need to and it'll confuse your colleagues.

Split the document into chapters and have each "owned" by a particular
colleague and then use GIT or CVS source control.  That's much more
productive with messing with the site installation, which has nothing to
do with the document you are working on.

el

On 02/06/2022 15:03, tush via lyx-users wrote:

Thank you very much once again, Riki.

I found the file and I can see it being updated after I apply changes
in the preferences menu inside LyX.

Where can I choose which preferences file to use?  I want to save a
copy of such a file and save it in the project's directory.  How do I
tell lyx to use that new file?  I can't see anything related to it in
the menus.

Screen shot: https://i.ibb.co/cYyJdpk/screenshot.png   
  >


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Re: Settings file for lyx

[tush via lyx-users]

Thank you very much once again, Riki.

I found the file and I can see it being updated after I apply changes in the 
preferences menu inside LyX.

Where can I choose which preferences file to use? I want to save a copy of such 
a file and save it in the project's directory. How do I tell lyx to use that 
new file?
I can't see anything related to it in the menus.

Screen shot: https://i.ibb.co/cYyJdpk/screenshot.png

Ehud

--- Original Message ---
On Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 at 1:17 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck 
 wrote:

> On 6/1/22 17:43, ehud.be...@protonmail.com wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> The last option you mentioned is the one I would like to adopt. But, where 
>> is this preferences file located?
>
> If you look under Help > About LyX, it will tell you where your user 
> directory is. The preferences file is in that directory. On Linux, this is 
> (by default) at $HOME/.lyx/. It is of course elsewhere on Windows and OSX and 
> also is, as I said, configurable at runtime via the -userdir option.
>
> Riki
>
>> --- Original Message ---
>> On Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at 5:27 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck 
>> [](mailto:rikih...@lyx.org) wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/31/22 16:42, tush via lyx-users wrote:
>>>
>>>> Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project.
>>>> Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX settings?
>>>> We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer something 
>>>> more technical.
>>>>
>>>> I mean, the document settings are part of the file.
>>>> But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users. 
>>>> Particularly, settings that are related to languages, font encoding and 
>>>> shortcuts, for example, could change if an expert user has made changes 
>>>> after the first installation.
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to my 
>>>> colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running it they 
>>>> would have the same settings for LyX as me, the project manager.
>>>>
>>>> Is there such a thing?
>>>
>>> Any document-specific settings are contained in the document itself. So you 
>>> do not have to worry about those. They will travel with the document. You 
>>> can see them yourself. Just open the LyX file with a text editor. It will 
>>> look something like this:
>>>
>>> #LyX 2.4 created this file. For more info see https://www.lyx.org/
>>> \lyxformat 608
>>> \begin_document
>>> \begin_header
>>> \save_transient_properties true
>>> \origin unavailable
>>> \textclass paper
>>>
>>> The document settings are in the header, which ends with \end_header.
>>>
>>> The system-wide settings are all contained in text files that you can find 
>>> in your user directory, most importantly the 'preferences' file. So to 
>>> synchronize those, you just need to send that file to other users. But I'm 
>>> not sure that those are what you have in mind.
>>>
>>> Note, by the way, that it is easy to use LyX with different configurations. 
>>> The '-userdir' flag lets you specify a user directory, so your users could 
>>> have one for use with this project and a different one that they use for 
>>> other thingsif they want.
>>>
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Re: Settings file for lyx

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 6/1/22 17:43, ehud.be...@protonmail.com wrote:

Thank you very much.

The last option you mentioned is the one I would like to adopt. But, 
where is this preferences file located?


If you look under Help > About LyX, it will tell you where your user 
directory is. The preferences file is in that directory. On Linux, this 
is (by default) at $HOME/.lyx/. It is of course elsewhere on Windows and 
OSX and also is, as I said, configurable at runtime via the -userdir option.


Riki





--- Original Message ---
On Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at 5:27 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck 
 wrote:



On 5/31/22 16:42, tush via lyx-users wrote:

Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project.
Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX settings?
We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer 
something more technical.


I mean, the document settings are part of the file.
But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users. 
Particularly, settings that are related to languages, font encoding 
and shortcuts, for example, could change if an expert user has made 
changes after the first installation.


I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to 
my colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running it 
they would have the same settings for LyX as me, the project manager.


Is there such a thing?


Any document-specific settings are contained in the document itself. 
So you do not have to worry about those. They will travel with the 
document. You can see them yourself. Just open the LyX file with a 
text editor. It will look something like this:


#LyX 2.4 created this file. For more info see https://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 608
\begin_document
\begin_header
\save_transient_properties true
\origin unavailable
\textclass paper

The document settings are in the header, which ends with \end_header.

The system-wide settings are all contained in text files that you can 
find in your user directory, most importantly the 'preferences' file. 
So to synchronize those, you just need to send that file to other 
users. But I'm not sure that those are what you have in mind.


Note, by the way, that it is easy to use LyX with different 
configurations. The '-userdir' flag lets you specify a user 
directory, so your users could have one for use with this project and 
a different one that they use for other thingsif they want.


Riki




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Re: Settings file for lyx

[tush via lyx-users]

Thank you very much.

The last option you mentioned is the one I would like to adopt. But, where is 
this preferences file located?

Moreover, in the LyX->Preferences->Paths window, I don't see such a file.

Could you give me more instructions on how to find it?
--- Original Message ---
On Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at 5:27 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck 
 wrote:

> On 5/31/22 16:42, tush via lyx-users wrote:
>
>> Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project.
>> Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX settings?
>> We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer something more 
>> technical.
>>
>> I mean, the document settings are part of the file.
>> But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users. 
>> Particularly, settings that are related to languages, font encoding and 
>> shortcuts, for example, could change if an expert user has made changes 
>> after the first installation.
>>
>> I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to my 
>> colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running it they would 
>> have the same settings for LyX as me, the project manager.
>>
>> Is there such a thing?
>
> Any document-specific settings are contained in the document itself. So you 
> do not have to worry about those. They will travel with the document. You can 
> see them yourself. Just open the LyX file with a text editor. It will look 
> something like this:
>
> #LyX 2.4 created this file. For more info see https://www.lyx.org/
> \lyxformat 608
> \begin_document
> \begin_header
> \save_transient_properties true
> \origin unavailable
> \textclass paper
>
> The document settings are in the header, which ends with \end_header.
>
> The system-wide settings are all contained in text files that you can find in 
> your user directory, most importantly the 'preferences' file. So to 
> synchronize those, you just need to send that file to other users. But I'm 
> not sure that those are what you have in mind.
>
> Note, by the way, that it is easy to use LyX with different configurations. 
> The '-userdir' flag lets you specify a user directory, so your users could 
> have one for use with this project and a different one that they use for 
> other thingsif they want.
>
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Re: Settings file for lyx

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 5/31/22 16:42, tush via lyx-users wrote:

Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project.
Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX settings?
We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer 
something more technical.


I mean, the document settings are part of the file.
But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users. 
Particularly, settings that are related to languages, font encoding 
and shortcuts, for example, could change if an expert user has made 
changes after the first installation.


I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to my 
colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running it they 
would have the same settings for LyX as me, the project manager.


Is there such a thing?


Any document-specific settings are contained in the document itself. So 
you do not have to worry about those. They will travel with the 
document. You can see them yourself. Just open the LyX file with a text 
editor. It will look something like this:


#LyX 2.4 created this file. For more info see https://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 608
\begin_document
\begin_header
\save_transient_properties true
\origin unavailable
\textclass paper

The document settings are in the header, which ends with \end_header.

The system-wide settings are all contained in text files that you can 
find in your user directory, most importantly the 'preferences' file. So 
to synchronize those, you just need to send that file to other users. 
But I'm not sure that those are what you have in mind.


Note, by the way, that it is easy to use LyX with different 
configurations. The '-userdir' flag lets you specify a user directory, 
so your users could have one for use with this project and a different 
one that they use for other thingsif they want.


Riki

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Settings file for lyx

[tush via lyx-users]

Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project.
Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX settings?
We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer something more 
technical.

I mean, the document settings are part of the file.
But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users. Particularly, 
settings that are related to languages, font encoding and shortcuts, for 
example, could change if an expert user has made changes after the first 
installation.

I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to my 
colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running it they would 
have the same settings for LyX as me, the project manager.

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