New Window

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 23 March 2010, John Ralls wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2010, at 9:51 AM, James Wilde wrote:
> > Mac running 10.6.2, with Gnucash. 2.9.9
> >
> > The original subject line was Bug in New Window, but I'm not sure it's a
> > bug.  Can some kind soul explain the function of New Window and New
> > Window with Page for me.
> >
> > And at the same time, is there any way of having two sets of accounts
> > open at the same time?  I would like to have a window showing my personal
> > accounts and one for the joint accounts with my wife.  Can this be done?
> 
> New Window creates a new window which will have no open tabs, and New
>  Window with Page creates a new window with the currently active notebook
>  page moved over to it.
> 
> Do note that on OSX the application menu behavior is a bit weird when you
>  have two windows open. Details in the Readme.
> 
> No, Gnucash doesn't support opening multiple account files at once.
> 
I don't know how this works on Mac, but on linux, you can open multiple 
account files at once. It's not possible via the menu, but you can do it from 
the command line:
$ gnucash <file1> &
$ gnucash <file2> &

This will open <file1> and <file2> independently.

I have setup separate custom menu entries that each open one of my account 
files (I have 3 that I use frequently). The entries essentially execute the 
above command, each for one specific account file. With these menu entries, I 
can open the account files completely independently of each other and can have 
more than one open at the same time.

Again, I don't know if this is possible on mac as well.

Geert