David T,
You're only somewhat confused. You're absolutely correct about the
Column Widths. When you change Column Widths, those changes persist
without you having to do anything. Whether you close the register, or
close GnuCash altogether, those changes to Column Widths will persist.
The changes are updated in the gcm file as soon as you make them. And
that's great for the Column Widths.
And you're partially correct about the View Style. When you close a
register, and then reopen it, the register always reverts back to
whatever your Default View Style is. But there is one case where a
register does keep the View Style that you've set for it. And that case
is where you LEAVE THE REGISTER OPEN, and CLOSE GNUCASH WHILE THAT
REGISTER REMAINS OPEN. In that case, when you reopen GnuCash that
register will still have whatever View Style you set for it -- even if
it's NOT the Default View.
Please try testing that and let us know your results.
Tom
You're also correct regarding the View Style.
On 12/16/2025 9:53 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
So, now *I'm* confused. My tests show different results.
Gnucash 5.13 (Nightly from 2025-12-10). Windows 11.
When I change a register's *column widths*, the changes persist,
regardless. I do not have to do any File->Save/File->Quit procedures.
I can adjust the columns, close the window, close Gnucash, restart
Gnucash, and the column settings are preserved for that account. I
will note that changing just column widths does not mark the file as
dirty (i.e., requiring a save); the column changes appear to be saved
automatically. I will also say that this is what I would hope for and
expect to happen if I adjust column widths for a register.
On the other hand, when I change a register's *view style*, the
changes do not persist. Once the register is closed, it will open in
the default view mode the next time that register is opened. I have
seen no exceptions to this. It does not matter whether you save the
file, close the file and reopen it again with that register open, or
any other mechanism. Once you close the register, it reopens in the
default view style.
Perhaps this is a Windows-only feature, or perhaps it is an addition
to one of the nightlies--but I most definitely do not see the view
style persist from one instance of the register to the next.
David T.
On 12/17/2025 9:39 AM, David Carlson wrote:
I am still confused. Whenever I want to save a register view aka
'style'
and/or column widths for GnuCash in the particular window size on the
display resolution that I am currently using, I simply leave the
register
set as desired and click File > Save, File > Quit. Once I have done
that,
it no longer matters if I close the register after the next
re-start. The
settings persist. Similarly for reports if I choose to leave them open
rather than saving the settings under a custom report name, except
those settings are lost if they weren't saved as a custom report.
Further, somewhere in the middle of the 5.x series of releases the
settings
for registers with children started to persist independently if child
accounts are included.
While it is less convenient to close the program instead of clicking
on an
icon in order to update the dotGCM file, it works. However, this
discussion makes it clear that there are several types of settings
that a
user may or may not want to make persistent, which is likely the reason
that the developers have not programmed them already.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]>
wrote:
While sequencing it in certain order works to preserve the setting
which I
think is consequence of the sequencing, nonetheless it is not a
mechanism
by which settings can be saved persistently IMHO (I’m wearing my
developer
hat here). If they are truly settable and saved, then it should persist
across anyway of GNC restart.
Having an account register open when closing GNC is anathema for me – I
like nothing but COA pop open and go from there.
From: Tom Route36 <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2025 9:27 PM
To: Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]>
Cc: 'Liz' <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GNC] Possible to Set and Save an Individual Register's
Default Style?
Kalpesh,
Actually, what I found was that the Register Style (just like Column
Width) DOES persist across GnuCash restarts. That part does work as
expected. What DOESN'T work is that only the Column Widths are
being saved
during the restart, and not the Register Style.
If the Column Widths are being saved, why wouldn't that include the
Register Style? It seems like a program bug (or maybe a feature
request?)
that could be fixed just by saving the current Style setting at the
same
time that the Column Widths are being saved.
I'm still relatively new to GnuCash; but hasn't anyone else
commented on
this issue before?
Tom
On 12/15/2025 6:38 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
That means there is not a way to save the Register Style and persist
across
GNC restarts., unlike column widths which persists across GNC restarts.
-----Original Message-----
From: Liz <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2025 7:37 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Possible to Set and Save an Individual Register's
Default
Style?
On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:11:15 -0600
David Carlson <mailto:[email protected]> <
[email protected]> wrote:
Tom, you did it backwards. Leave the register open and close GnuCash.
Then re-open Gnucash.
If you follow Tom's exact steps you will get Tom's result.
I did.
Liz
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