On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Konrad Hofbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > muzzle wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Konrad Hofbauer >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> muzzle wrote: >>>> >>>> Well, I do have several options in the menu, but I would like to >>>> change the default for the toolbar button, is it possible? >>> >>> Not with the GUI, I believe. >>> >>> It should be possible by creating your own *.ui files. >>> Look at what is in /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui/, create >>> your >>> own set of *.ui and *.inc files, put them in your user-directory and >>> select >>> them in the Preferences. >> >> Hi, >> sorry for the late resurrection of the thread >> I tried to work on this, failed, left the problem aside. This morning >> I tried again but with no luck yet >> >> I copied the content of the ui directory inside .lyx/ui as you >> suggested and tried to modify the menus. >> The relevant lines seem to be: >> >> Item "View PDF (pdflatex)" "buffer-view pdf2" >> Item "Update PDF (pdflatex)" "buffer-update pdf2" >> >> in but stdtoolbars.inc, I tried to change it but I made lyx crash, I >> could not guess how to get it to use dvipdfm. I suppose I could copy >> the code from the entry in the File menu, but I could not find it. >> >> Do you have any idea how to solve this? > > Don't have time to try right now, but look what in Preferences->File Formats > the shortname of PDF (dvipdfm) is (it is pdf3 by default), and use that > instead of pdf2 in the ui files. > > You should only need to change in stdtoolbars.inc > Item "View PDF (pdflatex)" "buffer-view pdf2" > Item "Update PDF (pdflatex)" "buffer-update pdf2" > by > Item "View PDF (pdflatex)" "buffer-view pdf3" > Item "Update PDF (pdflatex)" "buffer-update pdf3" > .
silly me! I had tried with pdf1 and pdf0 :) Now it works, the only minor problem is that the button has no icon, but a long label. > > You can FIRST try to directly change the files in the LyX.app, and if that > works, migrate the changed files into the user-dir and restore the original > LyX.app (otherwise you will loose them again with the next update) > I'm using linux, so I would rather not modify a system file. I will just keep the copy of the modified interface files in my users preferences folder (~/.lyx/) > > /Konrad > Thanks a lot, Emme
