(Please use Reply All to copy to the list) On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 6:31 PM, John Kane <jrkrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Would that it was that easy in Windows! > > In Windows 7 it is “C:\Program Files\Lyx2.1\Resources\ui”. Simple eh? > > What I want to do is get rid of most on the icons on the task bars. Instead > of 55 icons I want about 7 or 8. See attachment: I want most of those icons > gone. > You probably want to take /usr/share/lyx/ui/stdtoolbars.inc (wherever that might be on Windows), copy it to ~/.lyx/ui, and comment out the items that are not of use to you.
Regards, Liviu > I remember that it was possible to comment them out in one of the LyX files > but I cannot find the one I need. I don't use most of the icons regularly > and it is just as easy to use a menu and not have to put up with all the > distracting icons. > > I would also like to have the formatting window ( retangular box in upper > left corner used to assign the various environments such as Title or > Section, etc., and the revised icons appear when I am working in > full-screen mode. I probably can figure that out (well maybe. > > Not to worry about the backups. My general paranoia ensures backups of > anything valueable (well except LyX settings, obviously). > > On 11 April 2015 at 08:25, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 > > > > > -- > 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
