David I am running GnuCash 3.7 built on Linux Mint 19.2 from the tarball download and I don't experience any of the problems you are describing with editing the Description or Memo fields in a transaction in an account register or in the General Journal tab at all. They change and are saved and can be reopened.
I keep my GnuCash files in a Dropbox account and can open them in GnuCash 3.7 on a laptop running Windows 10 with no problem as well, even simultaneously, if I bypass the lock (definitely not recommended practice though). Much easier than transferring via QIF files if only going from GnuCash on Windows to GnuCash on Linux. You would have to be caerful that you have the same major version on each. Going from a 2.6 version on Windows to a 3.7 on Linux would not work for example. When you installed GnuCash 3.7 was it a new installation? If not, if you have previously installed GnuCash you may have library files for the previous version which may not have been overwritten or replaced. I have had problems in the past with the Linux Mint distribution version's files conflicting ( I install in /usr/local) if I do not totally remove the distribution version before installing your own build. Which location did you install GnuCash 3.7 in? As long as you don't install to the same location it should be OK. I often have one or two development builds as well as the current stable version on my computer as long as I install the development builds to separate locations in my user directory and my production stable version to /usr/local I haven't had any problem. It does pay to uninstall any previous version that has been installed in a particular location before installing another version to that location however. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
