Tommy, Thank you for the tip about the symlink, I'll need to do that. Here's the menu entry file that I have in ~/.local/share/applications/personal-gnucash.desktop. I have similar desktop entry for each gnucash file. This allows me to press the "windows" key, then type "personal gnucash" and I get the icon and the right file is launched. [Desktop Entry]Version=1.0Name=Personal GnuCashExec=flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash "/home/jpschewe/Documents/banking/gnucash/accounts.gnucash"Icon=/usr/sh are/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/gnucash- icon.pngTerminal=falseType=Application On Sun, 2020-11-08 at 18:17 -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote: > A couple of months ago I upgraded GnuCash 3.8 on my Ubuntu LTS system > tothe latest GnuCash using Flatpak. I wanted to keep my saved reports > and Ididn't want to have to worry about losing them again if I > switched fromFlatpak to a distribution version. Here's what I did to > keep them (\ lineendings and whitespace added for clarity): > # Close all running instances of GnuCash # Save any existing > Flatpak report configurations mv > \ ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash > \ ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash.orig # Create the > symlink ln -s \ ~/.local/share/gnucash > \ ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash > The paths above seem to be correct for any Debian derived > distribution, andI believe may be the same for any linux > distribution. (I hope someonecorrects me if I'm wrong.) > BACKGROUND: > I was putting off upgrading via Flatpak for a long time for two > reasons: > 1) My primary system running GnuCash didn't quite have the memory > orprocessor capacity to handle Flatpak applications. (It's impressive > howlittle RAM or CPU you need to run GnuCash. Or maybe it's > impressive howmuch of a cheapskate I am. Your pick.) > 2) I have books for eight organizations at this point and I would > hate tolose my custom reports and launcher shortcuts. > I upgraded the primary system earlier this year, so that addressed > itemone. Item two took a little digging amongst the FAQ entries. > I created a symlink as shown above and the saved reports have been > workingperfectly. I expected to have "sandbox" permission issues with > the Flatpakbut didn't. So why does the Flatpak have to use its own > directory insteadof looking in the same place the distribution > version uses...?) > I'm still not completely happy with my Gnome launcher shortcuts -- > I'm ableto get the right-click launcher menu to open my different > GnuCash books,but they do NOT share the "favorite" GnuCash icon in > the task bar as thedistribution application does. I figure I'm either > missing some Gnomelauncher secret sauce, or maybe Gnome doesn't know > how to handle > Flatpakinstances._______________________________________________gnuca > sh-user mailing [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. _______________________________________________ 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.
