Hi David, No issues for me. I am running GS 4.11 on Ubuntu 22.04 and the windows stay in the same place where I left them when I last closed GS Regards, Martin
On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 09:48 -0500, David Carlson wrote: > Tracy, > > I would not like a desktop that did not remember where a window was > located > on the desktop/display combination when last used. Any other users > seeing > similar issues? > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:32 AM Tracy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi David, > > > > Everything I can find says that Gnome (the desktop environment set > > up by > > default in Ubuntu 22.04 - which was also the desktop environment > > used in > > 20.04, which worked as expected) does not save window placement > > information. Instead, it is the responsibility of the application. > > Gnome > > will attempt to place applications according to a scheme if the > > application > > does not specify a starting position, but the application gets > > first call > > on that (at least according to what I see - I am not an expert on > > this). > > > > I am starting to wonder, though, if something in Gnome hasn't > > changed (or > > maybe a setting got clobbered during the upgrade), because another > > application has started showing the same problem (LibreOffice Calc > > is now > > doing the same thing GnuCash does - it opens correctly sized, but > > not > > correctly positioned). So I am going to try to research that aspect > > and see > > if there is a setting in Gnome that may be overriding the > > application's > > requested startup positioning. > > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 01:26 David Carlson > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Wouldn't the position on the desktop be a desktop setting? How > > > do other > > > program windows position themselves when opened? In my test > > > system of > > > Lubuntu 22.04 GnuCash opened the first time in the center of the > > > desktop > > > and thereafter in the same place it was when I closed it, just as > > > Libre > > > Office , web browsers, games and other programs do. > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:46 PM Tracy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Gyle, > > > > > > > > Thanks for the response. The desktop icons and such work a > > > > little > > > > differently under Ubuntu than under Windows. But even so, if I > > > > go > > > > directly to the exectuable and launch the application from > > > > there, I get > > > > the same result. > > > > > > > > And thank you for correcting my mistake there - it is indeed > > > > Preferences, not Settings - and the heading immediately over > > > > the Save > > > > Window Size And Position is Window Geometry. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/11/22 20:13, Gyle McCollam wrote: > > > > > Tracy, > > > > > I'm on 4.11 on Windows 11 so I may have different options. > > > > > Mine is > > > > under Edit/Preferences/Windows/Window Geometry and has a check > > > > box for > > > > "save window size and position". It works fine. However, if > > > > the icon > > to > > > > start Gnucash has the properties set for anything other than > > > > "Normal > > > > Window", they override the setting in Gnucash. If it is set to > > > > "Normal > > > > Window" then Gnucash works the way you would like. So my > > > > suggestion is > > to > > > > check how your Gnucash Icon is set. Hope that helps. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank You, > > > > > > > > > > Gyle McCollam > > > > > > > > > > Gyle McCollam > > > > > > > > > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > email > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > From: gnucash-user > > > > > <[email protected] > > > > > > > on behalf of Tracy <[email protected]> > > > > > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 7:10 PM > > > > > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > > > > Subject: [GNC] Saving window position (and size) > > > > > > > > > > Ubuntu 22.04 > > > > > Gnucash 4.8 > > > > > > > > > > In the Edit > Settings dialog, under "Window" there is an > > > > > option to > > save > > > > > the current window size and position. However, this does not > > > > > appear to > > > > > be working fully - when I position GnuCash on the screen, > > > > > then close > > it, > > > > > then reopen it, it opens with the correct size, but not in > > > > > the correct > > > > > position - instead of where I left it, it opens with the > > > > > upper left > > > > > corner of the GnuCash window positioned at the upper left > > > > > corner of > > the > > > > > desktop (instead of having the GnuCash window positioned 2/3 > > > > > of the > > way > > > > > to the right on the desktop, as it was when I closed it). > > > > > > > > > > I have looked into the Wiki and found that the window > > > > > position and > > size > > > > > is stored in: > > > > > > > > > > $HOME/.local/share/gnucash/books/GnuTest.gnucash.gcm > > > > > > > > > > Closing GnuCash and editing this file (specifically changing > > > > > the > > > > > WindowPosition property in the [Window 1] section) does not > > > > > change the > > > > > startup position of the GnuCash window. > > > > > > > > > > Is there another place I should be looking for this, or am I > > completely > > > > > confused and there is another setting in the Settings window > > > > > that I > > > > > should be looking at, or....? > > > > > > > > > > Note that this was an upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 and GnuCash > > > > > 3.<I don't > > > > > remember the point version> so it is possible that there are > > > > > files or > > > > > settings that were left behind by the upgrade process that > > > > > are > > > > > interfering (if so, and someone can point me to a resource > > > > > for > > cleaning > > > > > up those settings, I would be happy to poke at it...) > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any information or assistance on this. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > 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. 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