User's Guide to the The Tycho Preferences Manager

The Tycho preferences manager allows you to set a number of preferences that control fonts, layout, and colors in the Tycho user interface. Preferences are grouped into stylesheets, where each stylesheet has one or more styles that you can choose and edit.

To open the preferences manager, choose the Style Preferences... entry from the Help menu on the right-hand side of any Tycho main window. This brings up a window listing the currently-loaded style sheets. Each of these has an option menu that selects the currently-chosen style. For example, the Fonts style-sheet has (at least) the styles Default and Small. By selecting one of the styles in the option menu, all widgets that use that stylesheet will change to the chosen style.

To edit the values in a style, click on the edit button next to the option menu. For example, clicking on the Edit button of the Fonts stylesheet brings up a window that allows you to select eight different types of font used throughout Tycho. In any style editor, just change the option menu or check-button selections, or type into the entry field to change the value of the preference. All changes take effect immediately.

Tycho stores your style preferences in the ~/.Tycho directory. The file in that directory named profile contains the styles within each stylesheet that you have chosen. (To make your choices all revert to the default styles, delete this file and restart Tycho.)

Your preference values are stored in the sub-directory styles. For each style-sheet that you edited, Tycho creates a file in this directory containing the preferences that you changed. To revert all your styles to the default values, simple delete this directory and restart Tycho.

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