Locked Database

[Bob Williams]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 08:45 +0100, Maf. King wrote:
> On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 22:17, Bob Williams wrote:
> 
> > > terminal (you ARE running gnucash from a terminal, RIGHT???).
> >
> > Why is this important? I run it from a link on my KDE desktop
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This _can_ be important, because during execution, GC will print various 
> error/progress messages, which will be shown in a terminal window, if GC was 
> started there. By starting GC from a desktop link those messages won't be 
> seen (FWIW, I tend to start GC by clicking on the accounts data file I want 
> to use, and letting KDE and mime-types sort it all out for me - occasionally 
> I'll use a terminal just to check for warnings about my data files, or if I 
> have a problem) 
> 
> The point is that these messages can help developers diagnose problems.
> 
Ah, thanks. I thought I might be missing some essential functionality.