Am 09.05.2017 um 13:04 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>: > > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 10:42:42PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> The culprit in my case on Mac was the missing entry for document_dir (aka >> Working Directory). >> If I fill it with the name of my real document directory (e.g. >> /Users/stephan/Documents) then >> it works for me too. The 2.2.3 LyX doesn’t need that entry in preferences >> and uses the platform >> specific default value from Qt in this case. > > Stephan, do you think the easiest thing to do is just revert 892593fb? > I'm fine with that.
This probably would solve the problem too. And I’m not that confident it is only Windows or Mac platform having this problem. If a Linux desktop manager software programmer decides it would be correct to start programs from menu or desktop icons at some arbitrary directory like / or /var/private or so we have the same problem on Linux. Your goal was to start LyX from terminal with current directory as document dir. Wouldn’t it be better to provide a command line option to choose the initial document dir explicitly? Stephan