> On Jun 14, 2018, at 1:44 AM, Maf. King <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:11:14 BST Gyle McCollam wrote: >> I tried opening gnucash, I have been using for over 2 years, and it tells me >> it can’t get a lock. I select open anyway and it shows on the windows 10 >> taskbar, show a preview when hovered over the icon, but will not open for >> use. I tried shutting down the computer and restarting, but that didn’t >> help. What is going on? >> > > Have you used a twin-monitor set up in the past? sounds like GC is opening > OK > but putting a window or dialogue box "off screen"
That’s one possibility. The other is that you closed GnuCash with the main window minimized and GnuCash has set the window position to -32000;-32000. That misfeature has been fixed for 3.2, but in the meantime you can open AppData/Roaming/GnuCash/books/your-datafile-name.gcm in an editor (notepad will do), find the window position line, and change the coordinates to small positive numbers, perhaps 100;100. The parameter you want to change is ... [Window 1] ... WindowPosition=-32000;-32000; ... Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
