Tom & David,
Well that was a senior moment!  I leave a standard set of tabs open and of 
course they would preserve the setting if not closed.  My bad, sorry.


Thank You,

Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

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________________________________
From: David Carlson <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2026 5:57 PM
To: Tom Route36 <[email protected]>
Cc: Gyle McCollam <[email protected]>; Gnucash Users <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Tab View

Gyle,

Tom is right.  The key is that the default view preferences are only applied 
when the register is opened.   If you leave a register (or report) open when 
you close GnuCash, that window re-opens exactly as it was, except the cursor 
focus lands at the end.



David Carlson

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 3:23 PM Tom Route36 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Gyle,

I just tried duplicating what you described here; but that's not what's
happening for me.  I changed a view on one of my open tabs to
Transaction Journal. and then after that I changed Register Defaults ->
Default Style to Auto-Split Ledger.  And that updated Default Style
applies to everything.  The only thing I had to do was to close the open
tab and then reopen it.  When that tab reopened the View was set to
Auto-Split Ledger.  Are you closing and then reopening the tab that you
previously set to Transaction Journal?

Tom


On 1/15/2026 1:46 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> I've previously changed the view on my open tabs to "Transaction Journal", 
> then later I decided to change my preferences to "Register Defaults/Default 
> Style/Auto-split Ledger".  However, tabs that have been changed, such as 
> those I changed to "Transaction Journal", do not change.  I have manually 
> changed them to "Auto-split Ledger", but if I decided to go back to "Basic 
> Ledger", I would have to change these manually again.  Is there a way to tell 
> Gnucash that I want all tabs to go to the default view?  It would be great if 
> on the individual tab view there was also an option for the "Default" in 
> addition to the "Basic Ledger", "Auto-split  Ledger", and "Transaction 
> Journal".
>
>
> Thank You,
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
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