I would think instead that you need to find that history file in the
flatpak path and change it there.
Perhaps, if you have the repo version installed, remove it and any
associated settings info in your home directory.
Regards,
Adrien
On 1/21/26 8:31 AM, Jared Squires via gnucash-user wrote:
Just did that, here is the output:
jared@jared-MS-7E26:~$ dconf dump /org/gnucash/GnuCash/history/
[/]
file0='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx1.gnucash'
file1='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx2.gnucash'
file2='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx3.gnucash'
file3='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx4.gnucash'
file4='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx5.gnucash'
jared@jared-MS-7E26:~$ dconf write /org/gnucash/GnuCash/history/maxfiles 8
jared@jared-MS-7E26:~$ dconf dump /org/gnucash/GnuCash/history/
[/]
file0='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx1.gnucash'
file1='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx2.gnucash'
file2='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx3.gnucash'
file3='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx4.gnucash'
file4='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx5.gnucash'
maxfiles=8
jared@jared-MS-7E26:~$
That did not change the files in the list... I will say, that the first
"dump" command lists the files in a different order than what was in the
Recent Files list in GnuCash.
I installed VER 5.14 from the Flathub repository, not the Mint Software
Manager. When I go to About GnuCash I get this:
GNC_DATA_HOME: /home/jared/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash
(User modifiable)
GNC_CONFIG_HOME: /home/jared/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/config/gnucash
(User modifiable)
GNC_BIN: /app/bin
GNC_LIB: /app/lib/gnucash
GNC_CONF: /app/etc/gnucash
GNC_DATA: /app/share/gnucash
I'm wondering if it's reading the recent files from a different place?
In the
/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/9241a2690470b7cd8f995c29f1e2554b8cc7342e103e6fc4b7908e3f943bd188/files/etc/gnucash/environment
file it does say:
# GnuCash was not installed in the default location.
# XDG_DATA_DIRS will be set so that our documentation
# and gsettings schema are found.
XDG_DATA_DIRS={GNC_HOME}/share;{XDG_DATA_DIRS};/usr/local/share;/usr/share
Do I need to uninstall everything, delete any GnuCash file I find and
install it again?
Jared
On 1/20/26 4:51 PM, Maf. King wrote:
Hi Jared.
what output do you get from the command
dconf dump /org/gnucash/GnuCash/history/
it should return a list of the recently opened files and one integer parameter,
maxfiles=n
if that is not set to your liking, a command like
dconf write /org/gnucash/GnuCash/history/maxfiles 8
might help. plus restart GC, of course.
HTH,
Maf.
On Tuesday, 20 January 2026 19:25:18 GMT Jared Squires via gnucash-user wrote:
I'm running Linux Mint 22.3, I have used the dconf editor and edited the
file
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnucash.GnuCash.history.gschema.xml. I
confirmed the default number is now 8.
<schemalist gettext-domain="gnucash">
<schema id="org.gnucash.GnuCash.history"
path="/org/gnucash/GnuCash/history/">
<key name="maxfiles" type="i">
<default>8</default>
<summary>Number of files in history</summary>
<description>This setting contains the number of files to keep in
the Recently Opened Files menu. This value may be set to zero to disable
the file history. This number has a maximum value of 10.</description>
However, the menu only lists 4 files.
If I check the config/glib-2.0/setting/keyfile it lists the last 6 files
I opened.
[org/gnucash/GnuCash/history]
file0='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx1.gnucash'
file2='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx2.gnucash'
file4='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx3.gnucash'
file1='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx4.gnucash'
file3='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx5.gnucash'
file5='/media/jared/Jared_s Files/GnuCash/xx6.gnucash'
I changed the file names to xx#
Any help would be appreciated.
Jared
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