making column width stick

[Derek Atkins]

"D. R. Evans" <doc.evans at gmail.com> writes:

> Derek Atkins said the following at 09/16/2009 10:40 AM :
>> "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I must be being incredibly dense, but running version 2.2.6 as supplied by
>>> current 64-bit jaunty, I can't figure out how to change the width of
>>> columns in a way that sticks after I close and re-start gnucash. Whenever I
>>> start gnucash some of the columns are too narrow to display some of the
>>> dollar amounts.
>> 
>> Columns widths are generally stored in gconf after you close the
>> register.  But it's possible some aren't being stored properly, or
>> that your gconf settings aren't saving correctly.
>
> I'm a KDE guy. It sounds like gconf is some sort of tool to manipulate one
> or more configuration files somewhere (and google seems to confirm this),
> but I know nothing about it. Care to elucidate a bit about what file I
> maybe need to edit to affect this configuration?

GConf is a lot like the win32 registry..  It has a tree of data.
The files are stored in ~/.gconf* but there's a running gconfd server
that owns those files so don't modify them by hand without first
shutting down the user using:  gconftool-2 --shutdown

Or you can try to use gconf-editor.

>   Doc

-derek

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