Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences -- see bug 555187?

2018-08-23 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-18 13:38, Geert Janssens wrote: Op zaterdag 18 augustus 2018 16:34:14 CEST schreef Ken Heard: Last evening I was thinking of filing a bug report for my problem. In the process I found a previous bug report 555187 dealing with the same one (1). This bug was originally filed on 2008

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-22 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-22 03:43, Colin Law wrote: Can you remind me how you installed gnucash? I expect you have said but this has been a rather long thread. If it was a pre-packaged installer then I think that is a bug in the installer as it should specify dbus-x11 as a dependency. It is not an issue on

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-21 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-21 11:47, Colin Law wrote: I suspect that may means that dbus-x11 is not installed. Indeed. On receipt of your email I immediately installed dbus-x11. It added two more directories to my home directory. ./dbus and ./config/dconf. (Is ~./conf now obsolete?) I did not have to re

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-21 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-21 04:24, Colin Law wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 23:31, Ken Heard wrote: Just now I ran command "dconf update" which returned the following: --- error: Error opening directory '/etc/dconf/db': No such file or directory It seems there is somet

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-20 Thread Ken Heard
Just now I ran command "dconf update" which returned the following: --- error: Error opening directory '/etc/dconf/db': No such file or directory Usage: dconf update Update the system dconf databases --- It this message relevant to my dconf problem? R

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-20 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-20 12:44, Colin Law wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 16:19, Ken Heard wrote: I have discovered that I do not have a file ~/.config/dconf. Perhaps the absence of such a fine has prevented my from changing any of my gnucash preferences. So I suppose my next step is somehow to create

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-20 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-18 10:42, Colin Law wrote: On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 15:19, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: I think Ken mentioned GnuCash 2.6.15 in Debian Stretch in the OP. I missed that. Thanks. Ken, dconf not working can be caused by corrupted dconf config files. Th

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-18 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-18 09:57, Colin Law wrote: On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 14:52, Geert Janssens wrote: Op zaterdag 18 augustus 2018 15:47:06 CEST schreef Ken Heard: On 2018-08-18 02:07, Colin Law wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 22:59 Ken Heard, wrote: On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote: The apply

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences -- see bug 555187?

2018-08-18 Thread Ken Heard
ite should have the details of where this is stored. (this changed recently with version 3.0, so be certain you are referencing info for the version you have installed) Regards, Adrien On Aug 16, 2018, at 6:49 PM, Ken Heard wrote: Adrien, Thank you for your reply. It arrived in my inbox jus

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-18 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-18 02:16, Geert Janssens wrote: Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2018 16:52:32 CEST schreef Ken Heard: I would expect that the default preferences and the changed preferences would be in the same file, not in a different file. So the defaults must be somewhere where gnucash can find them

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-18 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-18 02:17, Geert Janssens wrote: Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2018 23:59:28 CEST schreef Ken Heard: On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote: The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it just appears in the bottom bar of the window. Colin I don't even se

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-18 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-18 02:07, Colin Law wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 22:59 Ken Heard, wrote: On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote: The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it just appears in the bottom bar of the window. Colin I don't even see it there. The bott

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-17 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote: The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it just appears in the bottom bar of the window. Colin I don't even see it there. The bottom bar has this text "The change will be applied on such request or if you quit this view." followe

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-17 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-17 13:18, Geert Janssens wrote: Thanks for the feedback. My request to try with dconf-editor was not meant as a workaround, but rather to determine if values can be changed at all. From your explanation I still can't infer this exactly, but I readily admit my instructions were very

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-17 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-17 11:28, Geert Janssens wrote: Please ignore ~/.gnucash for now. It's not related to the preferences you are trying to tweak. ? Did you play with dconf-editor ? And what where the results ? After some research I opened dconf-editor and found /org/gnucash/general/date

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-17 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-17 03:27, Geert Janssens wrote: Actually as of gnucash 2.6 the preferences are managed via GSettings. On linux this means the settings are stored in dconf by default. We had a few cases early on where gnucash was installed on systems that didn't have dconf installed. In that case GSet

[GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-07-11 Thread Ken Heard
I have been using GnuCash since 2009. Twice every year I need to transfer my account file from one desktop to another. I never had any trouble opening GnuCash after each such transfer until now. Early on in my use of GnuCash I changed the accounts separator from the colon (:) to the back sla

[GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-07-10 Thread Ken Heard
I have been using GnuCash since 2009. Twice every year I need to transfer my account file from one desktop to another. I never had any trouble opening GnuCash after each such transfer until now. Early on in my use of GnuCash I changed the accounts separator from the colon (:) to the back sla