I find that doing a double left click on each column header, going from right to left works just fine.
On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 7:11 PM peterb <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been using Gnucash for many years and I still never know exactly > what's going to happen when I try to resize a column. It is 120% > infuriating - at least to me! - so I'm in favor of trying to make the > behavior more sensible. > > It feels fundamentally weird to me to privilege the description column that > way, because it means I constantly end up in situations where space is > being added to the description column, which in the common case has plenty > of room, and in the meantime my debit and credit columns are cutting off > half the numbers in them. > > -Peter > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 10:42 PM john <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Users, > > > > There have been occasional complaints for many years about column width > > sizing. See for e.g. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563588. > > Most users seem to eventually get used to it, but I wonder if anybody > > really likes it. > > > > The problem boils down to the auto-sizing behavior of the Description > > column, which causes that column to grow or shrink when you adjust the > > window's width, and to make a horizontal scrollbar appear when you widen > > another column. Occasionally someone will complain about the normally > > hidden price column because it's possible to catch its handle and widen > it > > when you mean to widen the balance column. > > > > It would be really easy to turn off autosizing on the Description field > > and only a little work to figure out another way to handle the price and > > ditch that column. Would anyone miss it? > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > 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 > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
