[posted and mailed] "Eric Desfonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .com:
> Hello all, > > I just downloaded the new version of native Lyx (version 1.3.3, thank > you Ruurd). > > I have installed it on two PCs, my laptop and my office PC. I am > having problems with the office PC, as it is using P:/.lyx as the user > home directory. And I get error messages if I try a reconfigure (i.e. > the system cannot find the path specified). > > The laptop is using C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.lyx and > everything runs smoothly on it. I copied over the Lyx main folder to > the office PC (when running 1.3.2) hoping things would go smoothly but > I decided to install the upgrade also and now things are starting to > break. =( I had the Cygwin version installed before on the office PC, > but this was working fine, I removed it before moving the native win32 > version. > > What I am wondering about is how is the User directory defined in the > win32 versions? I was used to changing the lyxprofile file in the > Cygwin version or the Linux ports but I cannot find anything similar > on the native win32 port. I never specified to use C:\Documents and > Settings\Administrator\.lyx on the laptop... it just happened this > way. Could it have been hardcoded by Ruurd? > > On my laptop I am running as user administrator, on the office PC I am > using a login edesfonds (local admin rights, but not the same user > name). On the office PC, I have my My Documents mapped to P:\My > Documents, which is different from the laptop (I originally thought > this was the problem). > > I am running Windows 2000 on both computers. Any ideas, suggestions, > comments would be most welcomed. > > Cheers, > > Éric Desfonds > > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3C352.DBC52301-- An easy solution (IMHO) is to edit the properties of your Windows shortcut to LyX. Change the "Target" entry to blahblahblah\lyx.exe -userdir <path to your home directory> and leave the "Start in" entry pointing to LyX's bin directory. Note that userdir is preceded by just a single dash, not a double dash. You should be able to set the user directory to any directory in which you have write permissions. You'll probably need to do Edit | Reconfigure the first time you use the modified shortcut. HTH, Paul ************************************************************************* Paul A. Rubin Phone: (517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432-1111 The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ************************************************************************* Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different. J. W. v. GOETHE
