Limit text width in the editor window (non-fullscreen mode)

Daniel xracoonx at gmx.de
Thu Jan 26 10:33:34 UTC 2023


On 2022-10-31 08:36, Daniel wrote:
> On 24/10/2022 00:15, Christopher Hillenbrand wrote:
>> Dear LyX developers,
>>
>> Here's a patch for adjusting editor text width in windowed mode (see
>> ticket https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9376). It's an adaptation of
>> the previous patch uploaded by stwitt (two years ago). Please try it
>> out when you get a chance!
>>
>> Since I couldn't access the true screen DPI from within
>> prefs2prefs.py, this patch removes the old settings \fullscreen_width
>> and \fullscreen_limit rather than hardcoding a default DPI value. But
>> if you think a different approach would be preferable, I'd be happy to
>> change it.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Christopher
> 
> Well done! Thanks for pushing the patch over the commit line.
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel

ps. Wikipedia's reasoning behind the change:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Features/Limiting_content_width




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