On 10/03/14 02:27, LyX Ticket Tracker wrote: > About update, I have a question: would it reset my preference setting? > Cause I spent a lot of time to set LyX, like fonts, output form, etc.
The most annoying side effect, if you update, is that the new version of LyX saves files with an updated LyX file format, that is not recognized by your older LyX version. So, once you save with an updated LyX, you can't open the file with your older LyX any more, in case you want to go back. Concerning preferences and everything else in you .lyx/, if you configure with --with-exe-suffix=-whatever (or similar, can't remember the exact option name), then it will use $HOME/.lyx-whatever and your prefs will be safe. T.