Setting "\tempdir_path" before first start

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org
Thu Aug 31 22:02:17 UTC 2023


Le 31/08/2023 à 23:06, Jakob Jakobson a écrit :
> a) As the access to the home directory is useful anyway, we set the 
> "\tempdir_path" to a directory within the home directory. However, this 
> should be done before the first start of LyX for a smooth user experience.

Did you try to set that in lib/lyxrc.dist? Unfortunately, it seems that 
you cannot use environment variables like $HOME there.

Did you try to change TMPDIR or something?

This seems like a generic issue, though. How do other packagers do?

JMarc


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