Resizing the Balance Column for Mutual Funds

[Joel Thibault (Gnucash)]

Hello again.  Last time I asked, I was the only one with this problem...

http://www.nabble.com/Problem-sizing-the-Balance-column-td23243597.html
http://www.nabble.com/PROBLEM-SIZING-BALANCE-COLUMN-td23341543.html

... but if someone comes across this in the future, I wanted to share
my workaround.  Maybe it will be useful to someone.

Specifically, my problem is that all Mutual Fund accounts have Balance
columns that are too small.  Normally I would employ the standard
technique of dragging the right side bar of the column header to the
right, but there is no right-side bar.  Balance is flush against the
vertical scrollbar.  I resized the window and used the horizontal
scroll to make sure I wasn't just missing it.  Nope.  Only Mutual
Funds have this problem.  I use Mac OS X 10.5.7 and Gnucash 2.2.9, and
I also saw it in 2.2.8.

At first I tried a suggestion to convert my Mutual Funds to another
account type (like Asset), resize Balance, and then switch back to
Mutual Funds.  That worked for a time, but I lost some precision in
the balances, I believe because I had to choose a different currency
(not a FUND) for the account.  Not enough to bother me so that was OK.
 But then this stopped working for some reason I haven't been able to
identify.  Now the trick I'm using is to modify my GConf settings.
Specifically I changed the value in
~/.gconf/apps/gnucash/window/pages/register for the setting
"balance_width".  This made the balance field in all of my accounts
larger.  I am now a happy camper.

Joel :)


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Joel Thibault [AIM: Jole Tebo]
Software Engineer in Boston