Next questions (fuller information)

[Derek Atkins]

Are you sure that gconfd is running?
Does it have access to your homedir storage area?

-derek

Quoting Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com>:

> Trying again for ideas. I know I may being impatient, but does anybody
> have a clue what I may have done wrong* that is preventing me from being
> able to save any "setting" sort of stuff. This isn't preventing me from
> continuing the evaluation (which is otherwise going well) but its a
> major annoyance.
>
> Michael
>
> * Yes, almost certainly has to something that I have done wrong (or we'd
> be seeing here zillions of complaints). More important than identifying
> what I might have done wrong, how to fix it. If there is some place in
> the "app data" I should be examining let me know that (I don't know in
> what file this information would be stored)
>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Just close the dialog.  The changes take effect either when you 
>>> activate the
>>> control or close the dialog.
>>>
>>>
>> No dice.
>>
>> Since I am seeing a pattern here, let me begin again giving fuller
>> information (in case a "permissions" issue)
>>
>> I am running under MS XP Home.
>> GnuCash 2.2.0 was installed while logged in as "administrator" (naturally)
>> GnuCash is being used while logged in as ordinary user (naturally)
>>    (the above three are part of my evaluation scheme -- there's no
>> point to my evaluating under Linux as were that a requirement I couldn't
>> recommend adopting GnuCash)
>>
>> In case it makes any difference, the file (of account data) is in a
>> directory which is a subdirectory containing all data of the
>> organization whose books these are. I have seen that GnuCash appears
>> smart enough to place the backup and log and lock files into the same
>> directory where the account file lives. But I don't know where the
>> file(s) which store the data that controls the app behavior lives.
>>
>> OK -- before we even get the the changing preferences problem. I may be
>> having a problem saving ANYTHING (except account data). So let me
>> describe the first "problem" I see.
>>
>> I open the app. The "welcome to gnucash" window appears. Gives me the
>> choices to create new accounts, import, or enter tutorial --- or to
>> "cancel". I cancel and this brings up a little window which says that I
>> can choose not to see the "welcome" any more. So I select "yes" and I
>> get right to opening the app (and can open the file that is the
>> account). BUT -- the next time GnuCash opens, the "welcome" window is
>> there. In other words, change didn't take.
>>
>> I have a feeling that this behavior is not unrelated to the fact that I
>> can't seem to save preferences. I should perhaps have been more explicit
>> in describing my problem with changing preferences. I did of course TRY
>> "close" (as well as things like click elsewhere, then close, etc.).
>>
>>
>>
>>
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