Hi, FWIW, I don't think anything I said was Big-Sur-specific, but I thought I'd specify it, well, just because.... 😊
-P. On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 11:32 PM Peter West <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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