On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 2:03 PM, John Kane <jrkrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > Due to a nasty mechanical problem with my normal computer I am having to > haul an older laptop out of retirement for a while while repairs or a > replacement for the main machine is decided upon. > Unfortunately this means installing a lot of software on a relatively new > Windows 7 OS rather than sticking with my normal Ubuntu 14.04 (sob) and I am > trying to get things to look as normal as possible in Windows. > About three or four years ago I did a bit of customizing of the LyZ > appearance. I had counted the number of icons on the two task bars and came > up with 55 icons. I don't normally use more than 6-8 regularly and so I > decided to remove most of the icons. I also added the newly edited task bar > to the full-screen (F11) LyX appearance and adjusted the text width. As I > dimly remember it was tedious and a bit picky but not very difficult, > I could have sworn I did my editing in one or more files in the ui folder > but I cannot seem to find the the same things I thought I had remembered. Am > I just not reading the files correctly or am I in the wrong place? If so, > where would I look. Googling does not seem to bring up whatever I found last > time and, if it is in the manuals, I have failed to find it. > For that matter, if the edits are in the ui folder or wherever, could I just > copy them from my damaged machine and paste them into LyX on Windows? It is > still operational (with care) and I have not sent it off for repairs yet. > Unsolicited advice: BEFORE you send it to anywhere else for any sort of repairs, DO A BACKUP. I've seen people lose months of work by sending the laptop to customer service, who blissfully replaced the harddrive.
On Linux, the the config should be in ~/.lyx/ui . If not, then check if maybe you made the changes in /usr/share/lyx/ui/ (as root). It's a bit unclear though what config changes do you want to keep. Liviu > Both machines are running LyX 2.1.3. > Pointers and suggestions would be appreciated. > Thanks > john > > > -- > John Kane > Kingston ON Canada -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
