two sets of prefrences for two gnucash instances?

[Derek Atkins]

Try running with a different HOME directory?  Your settings are stored
in $HOME/.gnucash/ and that location is not easily changable on the
commandline.

-derek

Adrian Simmons <adrinux at ntlworld.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> The recent tip about have two instances of Gnucash running if you need
> to access two sets of accounts at the same time was excellent. But I'm
> feeling the need to differentiate the windows some how.
>
> I've achieved some success using xnest and opening one set of accounts
>> From Gnucash in a windowed x11 session, and the other in my usual
> rootless X11 on OS X.
>
> This has allowed me to specify a separate gtkrc for the xnested
> instance, and thus give one instance of Gnucash different application
> 'chrome'.
>
> What I'd like to do now is alter the ledger colours for that instance,
> the question is how do I have two sets of preferences for Gnucash?
>
> I see the --config-path and --load-user-config options in 'gnucash
> --help', but I can't get those to work; I get an "unknown option"
> error.
>
> Is there any way to launch Gnucash with a separate set of user prefs,
> so that I can have two different sets of ledger colours?
>
> TIA
>
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