open 2 sets of accounts

[Maf. King]

On Tuesday 09 Oct 2007, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Maf. King wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 Oct 2007, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> > > When you start GnuCash it seems to open the accounts file that was last
> > > used. If you use File->Open it closes one set of accounts to open the
> > > other.
> > >
> > > I have 2 separate sets of accounts and I need them open simultaneously.
> > > The only way I have found to do this is to start GnuCash twice, ignore
> > > the warning and once the second instance is up open the other set of
> > > accounts.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something?
> >
> > Hi Tarlika,
> >
> > A possibility (under KDE, at least) is to set up the mime-types so that
> > clicking a data file opens GC with that data file.  GC doesn't seem to do
> > this out of the box on my system.  That way, it is as simple as selecting
> > the relevant data file to have multiple instances running.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Maf.
>
> Someone here once told me to start gnucash from terminal with the file name
> ie gnucash /home/user/data_1 and gnucash /home/user/data_2
> now i have put those entries in my KDE menu  :-)


Hi,

That is actually what the KDE mime-type system does (when it is tweaked 
properly!) 

When you click on a .xac file (or technically, a file of mime-type 
application/gnucash)  kde "knows" to run the command guncash %f 
(where the %f gets replaced with the filename).  
Possibly a better generic solution than creating loads of menu options?

If anyone wants detailed instructions, I'll gladly share what I know!


Just my 0.02 units of currency of your choice

Maf.