> Makes sense, but my ~/ui directory is hopelessly empty (hence my > settings vanishing?) > > I had a look at the /usr/share/lyx/ui, but it looks like there are only > the default settings in there. >
Ah you're talking about the position of the toolbars. They are stored by Qt. This will be put in I think ~\.config\LyX\LyX*.conf. I'm not sure how it is called exactly on Ubuntu. Vincent