How do I manually create/edit a preferences file.

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Dec 19 10:45:13 EST 2011


tjacobits <tjacobits at comcast.net> writes:

> I was able to get results by editing
>
> \gnucash\etc\gconf\gconf.xml.defaults\%gconf-tree.xml
>
> using notepad and searching (ctrl-f) on
>
> "tip of the day" and setting bool value to false
> "auto-save" and setting the bool value to false
> "new_user" and setting the bool value to false
>
> if you have other settings, search on the string for that setting.

Note that you MUST make sure that GConf is NOT RUNNING in order for this
to work.  The general method suggested to edit gconf settings is to use
gconf-editor.

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-derek

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