Setting default document class

[Paul Rubin]

On 10/26/23 13:13, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>> Speaking of which, if you go to ~/.lyx/templates, you should see a file
>> named defaults.lyx. That's your default starting document. All else
>> failing, try creating an empty doc with the Report class, saving it to
>> /tmp with the name defaults.lyx, and then moving it over to the 
>> templates
>> directory.
>
> Okay. I didn't look in templates, but there the textclass is set to
> scrreport so I cannot explain why a new doc comes up as scrbook.
>
> Oh, well. I'll cope with it. :-)
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Rich
You might try "grep template_path ~/.lyx/preferences" and make sure that 
your template directory is correctly set (~/.lyx/templates). If LyX is 
looking for templates in the wrong place, that might explain why it's 
defaulting to the wrong class.

You sure know how to have fun!

Paul