With Windows 10 I have also had issues where the Window is open and has focus but, for some reason, its size is reduced to almost 0, a small line which I have to locate and resize, or select Maximize from the icon in the task bar.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021, 20:07 <[email protected]> wrote: > I am assuming you are on Windows 10 (based upon your "sent from mail" > message. If not, ignore my message and let us know what OS you are using. > > If you are Windows 10 - this does not sound like a Gnucash issue - this > sounds like a windows issue in that your program is losing focus or is > never > getting focus. I have seen this with other web-based apps happen -- the > app > is open, it shows on the task bar yet it is unresponsive. The reason for > the unresponsive-ness is because the focus is on another app that is either > running and you don't know -- or is running and you can't see it. > > To determine if this is the case, open TASK Manger and look at the active > tasks running. If you see an active task that you don't know or that you > are positive should not be running, do a right mouse click on it and END > the > task. Now if you are pretty sure all the running tasks are valid, leave > task manager and see (if Gnucash is still open) if when you click on > Gnucash > if it now has focus (i.e., you can work it). If Gnucash is not open, open > and see if it exhibits the same behavior before when the offending task was > open. If all is good -- that task was the offending task that had focus > and was taking it away from Gnucash. If all is still not good -- it is a > different issue. > > If you are still exhibiting issues, try de-installing and re-installing > Gnucash and see if that works. Don't worry, when you de-install, you will > not lose your data files. Hopefully one of these two items will correct > your problem. If neither of these two work -- let us know and maybe > someone > will have another solution. > > Ken > > -----Original Message----- > From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of alessandra derniat > Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2021 4:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GNC] arrggghhh - happening again! > > I go to open GnuCash and it shows as open in my task bar but when clicked > will not expand to allow me to actually work with it. So I see the program > open in my taskbar and when I scroll over it I can see my books but I can't > work on them. This happened a few months ago but before I could implement > any suggested fixes it starting working again without me doing anything. > > What's the problem? What's going on? Am I doing something wrong? All I did > was open the program! > Thanks to anyone who can help me. > Sandy > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows > 10 > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
