Program is hanging up

[Maf. King]

On Sun 23 December 12 13:33:57 Steve wrote:
> Don't congratulate me yet.
> 
> 1. I did not find either of your referenced .gtkrc or .gtkrc-2.0 files in my
> home directory in my original user space.  After getting your reply, when I
> ran GnuCash in my original user space, it was hanging up as reported
> earlier although clearly there is no evidence of that style being there (I
> can tell cause there is no ORANGE).
> 
> 2. So I went to my last "new user" that still runs GnuCash just fine, and
> copied the .gconf, .gconfdd, .gnome2, .gnome2_private, and .gnucash folders
> (ok, I'm flailing) from that new user over to the original user, thinking if
> it works there, must work here...
> 
> Note:  The only "thing" that distinguishes having GnuCash run successfully
> vs. not successfully (eg hanging up), is where it runs successfully, that
> style program was NEVER run on it.
> 
> 3. After copying those folders over, the program does not hang, eg
> non-responsive and an error dialog box comes up.  However, it is
> non-responsive, eg, if I click to expand Expenses, it opens up, but if I
> click again to minimize it, it does nothing; if I click Equity, it does
> nothing; if I go to preferences and click the tip box, it does nothing.
> 
> So clearly (to me), something is remembering that I had run that style
> program even though it is no longer active.
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> 

Hi Steve,

don't give up yet - the fact that it works for a new user is certainly cause 
for encouragement.

I don't know how GC and Windows interact, perhaps the theme setting is lurking 
somewhere in the registry rather than configuration files?  John Ralls clearly 
knows more about this than I do, and I'm sure he'll pick up this thread again 
with better advice when he is able!

Since your original user setup isn't working correctly, and you think it may 
be due to a particular theme, can you re-run the gtk2_prefs settings managar 
and either change the theme to something else, or better perhaps, back to 
default?

Season's Greetings
Maf.