diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.C b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.C
index c6c68b9a29..43cd3fca0f 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.C
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.C
@@ -64,9 +64,8 @@ using std::vector;
 namespace lyx {
 
 using support::FileName;
-using support::onlyFilename;
-using support::subst;
 using support::libFileSearch;
+using support::makeDisplayPath;
 
 namespace frontend {
 
@@ -512,7 +511,7 @@ void GuiView::updateTab()
 	// rebuild tabbar and function map from scratch
 	if (names.size() > 1) {
 		for(size_t i = 0; i < names.size(); i++) {
-			tabbar.addTab(toqstr(onlyFilename(names[i]))); 
+			tabbar.addTab(toqstr(makeDisplayPath(names[i], 30))); 
 			// set current tab
 			if (names[i] == cur_title)
 				tabbar.setCurrentIndex(i);
diff --git a/src/support/filetools.C b/src/support/filetools.C
index 4bc0d99595..4e6224a1ba 100644
--- a/src/support/filetools.C
+++ b/src/support/filetools.C
@@ -999,9 +999,14 @@ FileName const unzipFile(FileName const & zipped_file, string const & unzipped_f
 docstring const makeDisplayPath(string const & path, unsigned int threshold)
 {
 	string str = path;
-	string const home = package().home_dir();
+
+	// If file is from LyXDir, display it as if it were relative.
+	string const system = package().system_support();
+	if (prefixIs(str, system))
+		return from_utf8("[" + str.erase(0, system.length()) + "]");	
 
 	// replace /home/blah with ~/
+	string const home = package().home_dir();
 	if (!home.empty() && prefixIs(str, home))
 		str = subst(str, home, "~");