Startup behaviour

[Dave Peticolas]

Keith Refson writes:
> I don't quite understand gnucash's startup behaviour, where it reads
> the default accounts file from.
> 
> I see two different behaviours depending on how I start it.
> 
> 1) If I start it from a terminal window, it comes up reading my
>    default accounts file.
> 
> 2) If I start it from my KDE desktop , I get an error window with the
>    message "The file   /home/keith/.gnucash/data/%s could not be
>    found". Howver I can find the accounts file under the "File" menu.
> 
> Any ideas why the startup behaviour might be environment-sensitive
> like this?  I'm running under KDE 1.1.2 on a Sparc Solaris 8 system.

When GnuCash is launched from the desktop, is a filename given as an
argument?

thanks,
dave