Thanks Paul. I don't know what happened with this installation and why the other computer survived for this upgrade (because it has no customized UI file also), but it works like a charm now. :-)
--- Diego Queiroz On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Paul A. Rubin <ru...@msu.edu> wrote: > Diego Queiroz wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> I am using Lyx 1.6.5 (the actual last version) on Windows XP SP3. >> >> The problem is that the Math Toolbar and Math Panels Toolbar doesn't auto >> unhide when I am editing a formula. >> The same is happening when I am editing tables: the Table Toolbar does not >> auto unhide. >> >> I know I can hide/unhide them selecting the proper option on View > >> Toolbars, but I prefer to only see these toolbars when needed. >> >> The weird part is that this is happening only on the computer where I did >> a >> new install of Lyx (with no versions installed before). >> The same issue didn't happened on other computers, where there was old >> versions of Lyx installed and I just over installed the new version. >> >> How can I restore the default option to auto hide/unhide these toolbars? >> >> > The behavior of View > Toolbars ... seems to have changed. It used to be > that you could cycle any toolbar between on (always), off and auto. Now it > seems that you can only force it on or back to its prior state (either off > or auto). > > If you go to Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > User interface and look at > "User interface file:", you will see which UI file you're using (and, by > browsing, where it lives. You can edit it to add the auto-on feature. In > the Toolbars section, you want something like > > "math_panels" "auto,math,bottom" > "math" "auto,math,bottom" > > to make the two math toolbars automatic (you can change 'bottom' to > whichever side you want for them). You might want to put the edited UI file > in the ui directory of your local LyX files (usually C:\Documents and > Settings\you\Application Data\lyx16\ui), and then point LyX at it, so that > it survives future upgrades. If you did this on the other machines, that > could explain why the auto feature was on there -- although "out of the box" > LyX 1.6.5 installed here with the math toolbars in auto mode, and no > customized UI file. > > /Paul > >
