Settings file for lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 6/2/22 09:03, tush via lyx-users wrote:
> Thank you very much once again, Riki.
>
> I found the file and I can see it being updated after I apply changes 
> in the preferences menu inside LyX.
>
> Where can I choose which preferences file to use? I want to save a 
> copy of such a file and save it in the project's directory. How do I 
> tell lyx to use that new file?
> I can't see anything related to it in the menus.
>
> Screen shot: https://i.ibb.co/cYyJdpk/screenshot.png
>
> Ehud
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 at 1:17 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck 
> <rikiheck at lyx.org> wrote:
>
>> On 6/1/22 17:43, ehud.behar at protonmail.com wrote:
>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>>> The last option you mentioned is the one I would like to adopt. But, 
>>> where is this preferences file located?
>>
>> If you look under Help > About LyX, it will tell you where your user 
>> directory is. The preferences file is in that directory. On Linux, 
>> this is (by default) at $HOME/.lyx/. It is of course elsewhere on 
>> Windows and OSX and also is, as I said, configurable at runtime via 
>> the -userdir option.
>>
>> Riki
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ------- Original Message -------
>>> On Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at 5:27 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck 
>>> <rikiheck at lyx.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5/31/22 16:42, tush via lyx-users wrote:
>>>>> Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project.
>>>>> Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX 
>>>>> settings?
>>>>> We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer 
>>>>> something more technical.
>>>>>
>>>>> I mean, the document settings are part of the file.
>>>>> But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users. 
>>>>> Particularly, settings that are related to languages, font 
>>>>> encoding and shortcuts, for example, could change if an expert 
>>>>> user has made changes after the first installation.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to 
>>>>> my colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running 
>>>>> it they would have the same settings for LyX as me, the project 
>>>>> manager.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there such a thing?
>>>>
>>>> Any document-specific settings are contained in the document 
>>>> itself. So you do not have to worry about those. They will travel 
>>>> with the document. You can see them yourself. Just open the LyX 
>>>> file with a text editor. It will look something like this:
>>>>
>>>> #LyX 2.4 created this file. For more info see https://www.lyx.org/
>>>> \lyxformat 608
>>>> \begin_document
>>>> \begin_header
>>>> \save_transient_properties true
>>>> \origin unavailable
>>>> \textclass paper
>>>>
>>>> The document settings are in the header, which ends with \end_header.
>>>>
>>>> The system-wide settings are all contained in text files that you 
>>>> can find in your user directory, most importantly the 'preferences' 
>>>> file. So to synchronize those, you just need to send that file to 
>>>> other users. But I'm not sure that those are what you have in mind.
>>>>
>>>> Note, by the way, that it is easy to use LyX with different 
>>>> configurations. The '-userdir' flag lets you specify a user 
>>>> directory, so your users could have one for use with this project 
>>>> and a different one that they use for other things....if they want.
>>>>
>>>> Riki
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
Riki covered this in the last paragraph of his first reply. Start LyX 
from a command prompt with "-userdir <directory containing your 
preferred preferences file>".

Paul
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