Hi Joe, Keep the conversation on the list as others that know more than I can also jump in and assist then.
OK I understand now, you've managed to collapse the other columns into 1 minimal width column. No need to re-install. You can try left clicking on the thick black line and carefully teasing it out to the right to uncover the other columns one at a time. If your mouse skills aren't up to it you can either rename your <datafile name>.gnucash.gcm file to something else and then start Gnucash - it should recreate the gnucash.gcm file with the usual defaults when you restart gnucash - probably easiest. Or you can edit the .gcm file with a text editor and look for Register entries where the column widths are zero and set them to greater than zero i.e. 20 or 30. They look like the following :- [Register 7175cf7f4c095fe37cd54271eb7bef36] date_width=98 num_width=64 reconcile_width=25 balance_width=80 transfer_width=693 debit_width=80 credit_width=94 If you need to know where your gnucash.gcm file is located, click on help about and then click on the GNC_USERDATA_DIR: link in the popup and then open the books folder and it should be in there - at least it is for on Ubuntu using flatpak :-) Anyway hope this helps, cheers David H. On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 18:20, Joseph Hesse <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > Thank you for your reply. > This does not seem to work. I see the Date, Num, Description columns, > then a thick black line, then Balance - that's it, no more columns. > If I double click on Balance, nothing happens and nothing seem movable. > Do you think reinstalling gnu cash might help? > Thank you, > Joe Hesse > > > On 4/30/25 00:53, David H wrote: > > Sorry Joe not Jesse - we get there eventually :-) > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 15:51, David H <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Jesse, >> >> Double click the column header to automatically resize columns. Be aware >> though that the Description column is a special beast and automatically >> expands to fill all of the remaining space and sometimes a bit more. I >> usually work from right to left, double clicking each column header in >> turn, if the right hand columns get pushed off the screen ignore that for >> the moment. Skip the Description column and do the Num and Date columns. >> Then do the Description column last - if it works all good but I sometimes >> find it takes up too much room and pushes the right hand columns off the >> screen. If that happens, click and hold the Right side border of the >> description column, drag it left a few cm's or a couple of inches and let >> go and it should resize as expected. >> >> Cheers David H. >> >> >> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 15:04, Joseph Hesse <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am using Fedora 42 and the latest gnucash. When I view transactions, >>> the right hand part of the page if squished, some of the columns are so >>> narrow I can't read them. How can I fix this? >>> Thank you, >>> Joe >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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.
