wiki was: Register Column Widths

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Fleet Teachout <fleet at teachout.org>:

>
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>
>>> Quoting Fleet Teachout <fleet at teachout.org>:
>>>> Didn't find this subject in the Wiki FAQs; so how do I modify the widths
>>>> of the columns in the register.  I got the date column to behave; but I
>>>> can't seem to change the width of any of the other columns.  In
>>>> particular, "description" which takes up most of the screen display.
>
>>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_resize_my_register_columns.3F_
>>> _Why_can_I_not_shrink_the_description_column.3F
>
> Hmmm.  Ok.  Missed it in my review of the FAQS.  However, I now have a
> REAL problem.  I should have stated that the date was the ONLY column I
> could expand.  I just tried expanding the columns to the right of
> "Description" and now I can't read any of them.  They are just 4 lines
> down the right side of the display.

Instead of expanding the columns it sounds like you shrunk them.
Did you grab the left side or right side of the columns when you tried
to expand them?

> SO, how do I get, at least, back to where I was.  (I *didn't* save the
> file; but apparently GC did.  Getting out and reinvoking GC doesn't
> restore my previous situation.  At this time, GC is totally useless.)

GnuCash stores the register sizes in gconf automatically.  It's
a global setting.  You'd need to clear them in gconf to reset them.

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