I don’t have Big Sur, but I can just drag the icon from the Applications folder opened in FInder, onto the Dock. Then I can start Gnucash by double-clocking the icon in the dock. I suppoe it depends how busy you Dock is already.
peter > On 17 Jan 2021, at 1:41 pm, Peter S. Shenkin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Big Sur, I have Gnucash installed directly under /Applications, which is > the default Installer option. > > I either double-click the icon, or, in a Terminal window, type "open > /Applications/Gnucash.app". > > If you have Gnucash.app installed somewhere else, just type open <full path > to>/Gnucash.app. Once it opens, the icon will appear in the side bar. You > can then right click on it and select Options > Keep in dock. From then on, > you can just click the icon. > > FWIW (for geeks), I have a function set up in my .bashrc. The declaration > says: > > appo() { > # "appo Foo" will recite "open /Applications/Foo.app" > open /Applications/$1.app > } > > > The comment (beginning with the # sign) tells how I start an app that's in > /Applications from a Terminal session. For Gnucash, I just say "appo > Gnucash". (The mnemonic is "app open".) > > I hope the above helps. > > -P. > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 9:05 PM David H <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> Yes tried it without and get "Couldn't find an application named "Gnucash"; >> defaults unchanged" so it definitely seems to need the folder name in >> addition to the app name. Might uninstall on my Macbook Pro later and >> re-install to apps folder only and see if it makes any difference. >> >> Cheers David H. >> >> >> On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 09:30, David Reiser <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Have you tried without the extra directory info? >>> man defaults says that the -app flag specifies the name of the app, not a >>> directory. I haven’t tested it myself, and the manfile is a bit vague on >>> details here. But since defaults write is writing to the pfile in >> Library, >>> it doesn’t have to know the location of Gnucash. Gnucash reads the pfile >> on >>> launch, so it shouldn’t matter where the app is stored. >>> -- >>> Dave Reiser >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Jan 16, 2021, at 5:54 PM, David H <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi David, >>>> >>>> Been playing around with that exact same setting for a while now but it >>>> doesn't seem to work on my Big Sur / Gnucash 4.4 system. >>>> >>>> My setup is slightly different in that I installed Gnucash in >>>> /Applications/GnuCash as opposed to /Applications itself, so I've been >>>> tinkering with >>>> >>>> defaults write -app GnuCash/Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles" 5 >> but >>>> no luck so far.... >>>> >>>> Cheers David H. >>>> >>>> On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 07:52, David Carlson < >> [email protected] >>>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Searching the archives of this list I found a thread a year ago. This >>>>> suggestion was part way through the thread: < >>>>> >>> >> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-January/089080.html> >>>>> It seems to be only for Mac computers so there is no info that I could >>> find >>>>> for Linux or Windoze. For either it might be an OS or workspace >>> setting. >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 12:51 PM Stephen M. Butler < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 1/16/21 9:15 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >>>>>>>> On 15 Jan 2021, at 03:30, David Carlson < >> [email protected] >>>> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Maybe I searched for the wrong term. I would never have guessed to >>>>>> search >>>>>>>> for plist or mru, for example. >>>>>>> I’ve found the relevant file here: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnucash.Gnucash.plist >>>>>>> >>>>>>> but I can’t locate the Key that defines the maximum number of >>>>>> recently-used files for display (hereinafter called “MRU_MAX"), which >>>>>> defaults to 4 on my iMac Catalina running 4.4. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I notice that the Keys org.gnucash.history.file0 to >>>>>> org.gnucash.history.file9 contain fully qualified filenames for the >> ten >>>>>> books I have opened most recently, which suggests that MRU_MAX up to >> 10 >>>>>> could be supported if the default of 4 were changed. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There seems not to ba a way of adjusting MRU_MAX using GnuCash’s >>>>>> Preferences, so I’m stuck! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Michael >>>>>> Check the recent archives as I remember a discussion that if the key >>>>>> entry doesn't exist, it defaults to 4. You have to create the entry >>>>>> name/value pair in order to change it. They gave the key name in >> that >>>>>> discussion. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> 253-350-0166 >>>>>> ------------------------------------------- >>>>>> GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> David Carlson >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > 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. 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