Re: [GNC] help increasing size of font in GnuCash?
I found it! But I swear to you it did not show up in my Users file until I went back and searched for it. Best regards,mgk On Sunday, August 16, 2020, 06:53:51 PM EDT, David Reiser wrote: That’s the wrong library folder. There’s another one in /Users/[your user name]/Library. Dave -- Dave Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com > On Aug 16, 2020, at 5:56 PM, Marilyn Graves Kimple via gnucash-user > wrote: > > No problem-- there were actually two of us with the same problem, and I do > have a Mac but the other was Windows. But I know about Application Support > and I do not have a GnuCash folder. No idea why not. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] help increasing size of font in GnuCash?
I swear I do not have a library/application support/GnuCash folder on my Mac, either on my harddrive or in my user library. I have used similar folders for various applications in the past but GnuCash has not shown up. Maybe Mac is doing something different. I really have spent all the time I can afford on this right now. I did go to a customer feedback page for requesting features, and control of font sizes was on the list. You get to vote and we were pretty far down the list. Feature Request: Top (388 ideas) – Customer Feedback for GnuCash I left a comment which it signed anonymous. It took me a while to find the page as well. Democracy can be messy but it is worth it, IMHO. Best regards,Marilyn Graves Kimple ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] help increasing size of font in GnuCash?
Amen. I appreciate all the help, and at one time I might have been able to tackle it but at this point I give it a shot and then give up and recognize that it is beyond me.**I agree that the best option is to ask the developers nicely to include this feature in future releases. Americans with Disabilities Act etc., and we thank you. Best regards,Marilyn Graves Kimple -- On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 nor wrote: It is too complicated to modify gtk file for an accountant. I had postedearlier on this subject as below,quote,At time register is to small to view.Now that ver 4 series is developed, asetting in a menu to change the fontswill be of great help for the peoplewith poor eye sight. Standard Zoomin/out with control key +or- does notwork either.Appreciate youradvise,Regards,norUnquote.Regards, ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] help increasing size of font in GnuCash?
You guys lost me at GTK. I am definitely out of my league here.*I can
certainly create a .css file but where do I put it? It sounds like there is
supposed to be one somewhere.
**I am running GnuCash 4.1 on MacOSX 10.14.6. There is no GnuCash
folder in my HOME/Library/Application Support. I looked at the package contents
for the .app but I don't think that is what I am supposed to mess
with.I have never done any Linux/Unix and know nothing about special
line endings.
Thanks,mgk
On Friday, August 14, 2020, 07:21:31 PM EDT,
gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org wrote:
Message: 9
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:52:53 + (UTC)
From: Marilyn Graves Kimple
To: "GTI .H"
Thanks. This looks pretty scary but I will study on it. I used to code
HTML/CSS and I vaguely remember doing some DOS. I am a Mac person and don't
remember the last time I used the Console.
Best regards,mgk
On Friday, August 14, 2020, 10:53:35 AM EDT, GTI .H
wrote:
Here's how to do it:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3#Visual_Styling
Is there a way to customize the font size in GnuCash? I do not have an easy
time reading screens and I also have arthritis in my hands, which means I need
a bigger target for my cursor. I looked at the documentation and all I could
find was a style sheet for reports. My built-in Mac tricks for screen reading
(control+, track pad motions) do not work with GnuCash.
Thanks--?Marilyn Graves Kimple
--
Message: 10
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 17:57:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jimmy R
This will get you there fast
gtk.css
/* Application wide font setting */
* {
font: 16px arial;
}
--
Message: 11
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:19:43 -0500
From: Adrien Monteleone
Subject: Re: [GNC] help increasing size of font in GnuCash?
No console work necessary. Not sure what OS you are on, but just use
your favorite text editor, but be sure to use Linux/Unix line endings.
(some versions of Notepad I think use Windows endings) And of course
save in plain text, not rich text or anything formatted.
Create a file called gtk-3.0.css containing at the least:
* {
font-size: 16px;
}
This will of course affect every single text element of the UI, like a
magnifying glass.
Since you know CSS, you know you can play with the 16 and the px unit.
(not all Web CSS is recognizable in GTK, but much of it is)
That wiki page goes into more detail about where to save the file, and
what else you can put in it. (to target certain parts of the UI rather
than using the "*" sledgehammer.
Regards,
Adrien
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Re: [GNC] help increasing size of font in GnuCash?
Thanks. This looks pretty scary but I will study on it. I used to code HTML/CSS and I vaguely remember doing some DOS. I am a Mac person and don't remember the last time I used the Console. Best regards,mgk On Friday, August 14, 2020, 10:53:35 AM EDT, GTI .H wrote: Here's how to do it: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3#Visual_Styling -- RegardsGTI Em sex., 14 de ago. de 2020 às 09:35, Marilyn Graves Kimple via gnucash-user escreveu: Is there a way to customize the font size in GnuCash? I do not have an easy time reading screens and I also have arthritis in my hands, which means I need a bigger target for my cursor. I looked at the documentation and all I could find was a style sheet for reports. My built-in Mac tricks for screen reading (control+, track pad motions) do not work with GnuCash. Thanks-- Marilyn Graves Kimple ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
[GNC] help increasing size of font in GnuCash?
Is there a way to customize the font size in GnuCash? I do not have an easy time reading screens and I also have arthritis in my hands, which means I need a bigger target for my cursor. I looked at the documentation and all I could find was a style sheet for reports. My built-in Mac tricks for screen reading (control+, track pad motions) do not work with GnuCash. Thanks-- Marilyn Graves Kimple ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] help to set up equity sub-accounts opening balances [problem solved]
Friends: I first posted to this list back on August 4 and I thank you all for your help. I believe I have my solution; it is working and is just what I want. Warning: those of you who are real accountants will probably be appalled and the rest of you should probably not try this at home. Here is a summary: - I wanted to be able to set up what I call “Fund” accounts for designated purposes, which I had previously made Equity accounts [because in my old program I could enter an opening balance and deposit/withdraw funds directly to those accounts. Can’t do that in GnuCash, or regular accounting.] - There was some confusion about this, but in my system the “Funds” actually include all of my assets (less liabilities). No “envelopes” or anything like that. I post (actually transfer) budgeted amounts to my “Fund” accounts, and at the end of the month I post the balance of “net assets” to the Emergency/Savings fund, bringing the net assets to zero and closing the month (the old-fashioned way, I guess). - One suggestion (before we got off on envelopes and non-profit accounting) was that my “Funds” were not actually Equity accounts; they should be Liability accounts. That made some sense, so I set them up as liability accounts so they work pretty much like a credit card. You can write a check or make a credit card purchase and take the funds directly from the appropriate fund account. Different: to deposit (transfer, actually) funds into a fund account you need to use an expense account (“Accruals” in my case; I may not be using the term correctly). - At this point, your equity account shows a balance of zero, which is correct. But if you take the total of the Fund liability accounts, change the sign and add them to both sides of the accounting equation you can see that they are equal to your total equity. This is certainly not for everyone, but it works for me. (Hope it does not come back to bite me, but I have tested it out.) I am very pleased with GnuCash. Best regards,mgk ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] envelope method, equity sub-accounts, cash vs. hybrid vs. accrual accounting
Sounds promising. It seems to me if I posted a check, for example, directly to a "tithe payable" liability account I would not need a separate tithe expense account. For something like "household maintenance" or "emergency" reserve funds there would be a fairly large credit balance sitting there most of the time, but I guess that would work, too. I will try it out and see (after I have rested my brain some). Thanks. Best regards, mgk On Sunday, August 9, 2020, 06:26:09 PM EDT, doncram wrote: >For Marilyn, please see that recognizing tithing expense and tithing payable >(liability) does ?>exactly what you need. You don't need a separate >spreadsheet, I am pretty sure. Your Balance >Sheet will show your regular >assets, any liabilities that you already recognize, and now also >this >Tithing Payable. In exactly the amount that you were contriving to have an >equity >subaccount report. I further understand you were, in your previous >system, allocating out all >of your equity to a few purposes, i.e. more or >less in your words you were dividing out any new >net income (which increases >equity) into tithing and a couple other purposes. Whatever those >other >purposes are, probably they could be recognized as liabilities too. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] help to set up equity sub-accounts opening balances
> This has >gotten crazywhy not>just use the spreadsheet, no value is added and >possibly mistakes are >introduced in whatever you are doing trying to make equity accounts report >something. I had about come to that conclusion myself. I guess I will just set these up as expense accounts. I have not read ahead to see how you close a month in GnuCash, but I used to divvy up my "profits" among these three accounts so my P/L report shows a zero. In the meantime I will keep separate spreadsheets and all will be well. Apparently you can't get there from here. I was probably not doing it right but it was so easy in my old program... (she said wistfully--no offense). Thanks for all your help. Best regards, mgk ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] help to set up equity sub-accounts opening balances
>I wasn't quite clear if this is 'virtual' earmarking of funds or >real-world separate accounts. (like a savings account, or as with some >checking accounts, a special designation amount) >If this is just for your informational purposes to see how much you've >set aside, (but the money doesn't *yet* leave the physical checking >account) then create a sub-account of checking and do a transfer between >the parent and sub. I thank you all for your suggestions, and this sounds like the simplest. These are indeed "virtual" accounts; the only problem is that they include funds from both my checking & savings "real-world" accounts. Maybe I could set them all up under savings and show a 'virtual deficit' which would represent funds that are actually in checking? I tried making sub-accounts under the Equity>Opening Balance and entering initial amounts for my virtual accounts backwards so they would show up as negatives (part of the opening balance), but of course I could not write a check and credit the amount to both checking (asset) and a virtual account, so that did not work. I miss my old (ancient) program, where I could set up equity accounts as "funds", allowing me to post to them as I would income or expense accounts. How do others use Equity sub-accounts? Do they have to correspond to a "real-world" account? Thanks-- mgk ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] help to set up equity sub-accounts opening balances
Thanks-- but my problem is that I do not treat items from these equity accounts as expenses at all. In my former program it was called a "fund" account and I could move funds in and out of the equity accounts without affecting my monthly expenses. It was like an assets account but of course it just represented a designated portion of my assets. Since I cannot assign an opening balance to part of my equity account I am not sure this is something I can now do. For example, I write a check for a donation, credit my checking account and directly debit my tithe (equity) account. It does not show up as a monthly expense, although I transfer funds each month to the tithe (equity) fund by debiting what I am (possibly incorrectly) calling my accruals (expense) account. I divide up any profit/loss at the end of the month directly to my equity sub-accounts as credits, so my income always zeros out my expenses at the end of the month. I would sure like to figure out a way to do that in GnuCash. If I just treated my tithe, etc. accounts as expenses I do not see how I could keep a running balance. Maybe I will just have to do something different. Best regards, mgk Message: 3 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 10:35:32 -0500 From: Adrien Monteleone To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] help to set up equity sub-accounts opening balances Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed While you can make any account structure you want, there's no need to do so just for reporting purposes. Reports can show expenses (or anything else) monthly, yearly, for just a few days, or one day only if you like. Regards, Adrien On 8/4/20 10:07 AM, Marilyn Graves Kimple via gnucash-user wrote: > I have used double-entry bookkeeping although I am not trained. In the past I > have used what I called 'fund' accounts as sub-accounts for my equity > account: home maintenance, tithe, and emergency savings, for example. I > divide my 'profits' each month and accrue them through an expense account to > accounts which are part of my total equity. > The object is to keep a running total for expenses which are typically annual > rather than a month-by-month total. Can I do this with GnuCash? I think I > really need to do this. > Setting up my accounts initially I tried setting up sub-accounts under the > parent Equity, and then under the Equity sub-account Opening Balances, and it > only allows me to transfer to Open Balances in each case. The funds in my > assets/liabilities account are not transferable 1 to 1 to one of these other > accounts. > I may have to change the way I do things, but I would really appreciate help > with this.? mgk ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
[GNC] help to set up equity sub-accounts opening balances
I have used double-entry bookkeeping although I am not trained. In the past I have used what I called 'fund' accounts as sub-accounts for my equity account: home maintenance, tithe, and emergency savings, for example. I divide my 'profits' each month and accrue them through an expense account to accounts which are part of my total equity. The object is to keep a running total for expenses which are typically annual rather than a month-by-month total. Can I do this with GnuCash? I think I really need to do this. Setting up my accounts initially I tried setting up sub-accounts under the parent Equity, and then under the Equity sub-account Opening Balances, and it only allows me to transfer to Open Balances in each case. The funds in my assets/liabilities account are not transferable 1 to 1 to one of these other accounts. I may have to change the way I do things, but I would really appreciate help with this. mgk ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
