On 10/21/26 22:00, Julie G wrote:
I DID IT! Thanking the people over at bugs.gnucash SO much. I copied the
gnucash.desktop file from home to .local, opened it in a text editor, and
changed line EXEC= from whatever it said to Exec=/usr/bin/env
WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 gnucash %f
and then i made good notes about what I did, for future reference :-)
when I now click on the icon for gnucash it works.
Great!
Thanks for reporting back so we know that worked.
Teeny misteak though. Someone in a forum who was trying to help me with
this suggested in uninstall the flatpak version and install the ...regular?
version. I don't know what is PC to call this version, maybe the
non-flatpak version? Anyway, of desperation I did this without realizing
all my saved report configurations would be deleted along with the
program. This is on my desktop computer. I have them on my laptop version
of gnucash, which is a flatpak. My question is, how might I uninstall the
version on my desktop and *replace* it with the very same program off of my
laptop? Is that a possibility? Seems like it could be. And then all my
saved reports would be back?
The non-flatpak is the standard 'repo' version. ('Repository') Each
Linux distribution maintains its own repository of software you can
install. Those versions are usually tested and compiled, and perhaps
tweaked, to work with your specific Linux distribution. Apps from those
repositories come with various extensions, but the most common you'll
probably see is '.deb' or '.rpm'. The '.deb' extension is used by the
Debian Linux distribution and its derivatives such as Ubuntu and Mint.
(".rpm' is used by Fedora/RedHat and its derivatives)
If you are running the flatpak on your laptop and want to do the same on
the dekstop, simply install the flatpak version on the desktop. Either
follow the instructions on the wiki, or you may find it in your Software
Center and you can install it from there. While you can have both the
.deb and flatpak version installed, you probably want to remove the .deb
version so you don't accidentally launch the wrong one down the road.
(user configuration files are also stored separately for each version,
so that can indeed lead to confusion if you are not very meticulous
about which one you use and when)
It is possible your saved report configurations still exist on the
desktop computer. But they are where the flatpak used to look for them
and now you have the repo version which looks somewhere else.
Get very familiar with the wiki section about Backups and Configuration
locations. It can take a few reads to get a good grasp of it, but after,
you'll be able to see where your file are stored and how to get to them.
(and what needs to be backed up!)
A teeny other detail...When replacing what it said on the EXEC= line, I
couldn't tell you what it used to say before I changed it. I tried going
to the laptop and looking for that particular file there. However, i can
not find the path where the gnucash.desktop file is saved, so i can't copy
it to the .local folder, which I also can't find. I did find it through a
search; there is probably only one .local folder, and because I hadn't put
a copy of gnucash.desktop in it in the past, there wasn't one there.
It probably just didn't have the 'WEBKIT' part in it, but all the rest.
See the gnucash wiki about Backup and Configuration locations. As noted
above, they are different for flatpak vs. a regular 'repo' installation.
Don't bother with this until you get it straightened out which version
of the app you want to run on both machines.
And finally, what is meant by gnucash.desktop? On my laptop would it be
something different, or is this a different meaning of the word desktop?
The file has the same name on both, but as noted above, they will be in
different locations depending on how the app was installed.
Flatpaks are in their own 'sandbox' so they don't clobber or interfere
with other apps or important files. Their access to files on your drive
is limited to this sandbox. (unless you configure it otherwise) This is
why the configuration files are in one place with a flatpak installation
and a different place with a regular repo installation.
Generically a '.desktop' file is used by Linux distributions as
'launchers'. That is, when you click an icon to launch an app, what you
are really doing is opening the '.desktop' file for that app which then
triggers the Exec command line in that file, which is what launches the
app itself, sometimes with special parameters. (such as the WEBKIT
workaround) Other things can be specified in .desktop files such as the
icon to display for it, and what menu category to place it in. Without
this .desktop file, you would have to navigate every time to where the
binary copy of the app is stored and launch it from there, or use the
command line directly to do so. This is analogous somewhat to
'shortcuts' in the Windows world.
Every app that appears in your menu has a .desktop file, usually as
"name_of_app.desktop".
Regards,
Adrien
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