Transaction Register Problem

[Maf. King]

On Tue 29 May 12 06:43:44 Les wrote:

> > *From:* Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com>
> > *To:* Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net>
> > *Cc:* gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > *Sent:* Tue, May 29, 2012 5:30:35 AM
> > *Subject:* Re: Transaction Register Problem
> > 
> > On 05/29/2012 02:15 AM, Maf. King wrote:
> > > On Mon 28 May 12 20:44:40 Les wrote:
> > >> Hey All:
> > >> 
> > >> I have a serious problem that I have been unable to resolve
> > 
> > (including a
> > 
> > >> complete uninstall/reinstall).
> > >> 
> > >> I am on Mint Linux Debian v. 12 with Gnucash 2.4.10.
> > >> 
> > >> While trying to expand an expense register, I have somehow fubarred my
> > >> registers (all of them).
> > >> 
> > >> Before, the registers had the following columns for Assets:
> > >> Date, Num, Description, Transfer, R, Deposit, Withdrawal, Balance.
> > >> Now: Date, Num, Description, Transfer, R, Withd. Balance.
> > >> 
> > >> Before, for Expense accounts:
> > >> Date, Num Description, Transfer, R, Expense, Rebate, Balance.
> > >> Now:  Date, Num, Description, Tranfer, R, Rebat, Balance.
> > >> 
> > >> I have Mac with Gnucash v 2.4.10 installed and it is ok.  I have copied
> > >> the files from it to the Linux machine but no effect.
> > >> 
> > >> I then did a complete uninstall of Gnucash using Apt.  I then
> > >> reinstalled Guncash, used the gnucash files from the Mac and still no
> > >> effect.
> > >> 
> > >> There must be some way to resolve this problem.  Any help, greatly
> > >> appreciated.
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> 
> > >> Les
> > > 
> > > Hi Les,
> > > 
> > > Not exactly clear on what problem you are seeing  - you've given
> > 
> > "before"
> > 
> > > conditions above, but not a "current" condition.
> > > 
> > > I'm going to have a guess, though.  Have you looked at this?
> > > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_resize_my_register_columns.
> > > 3F_Why_can_I_not_shrink_the_description_column.3F
> > > 
> > > Any use?
> > > 
> > > HTH,
> > > Maf.
> > 
> > Maf:
> > Thanks for the suggestion.  (The "now" condition is the current
> > condition.)
> > 
> > That is the issue, but it did not work.  As a matter of fact, following
> > the instructions, I attempted to resize the columns made it worse.  Now
> > I have a huge description column and very small columns for the
> > remainder.
> > 
> > As a test, I created a new account, imported GC's accounts and
> > everything looks fine.  So, it appears to be a profile issue.  I have no
> > idea how to fix this.
> > 

Hi Les,

Try moving the folders ~/.gnucash and ~/.gconf out of the way (rename them or 
something, just to be on the safe side - you may need to restore them later 
on)

Then restart GC - you will have lost preferences and saved reports, but it 
narrows down the search....

> > Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Les
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> I managed to get all three columns for dollar entries back but they and
> the transfer column are still very small, with a huge description
> column.  I cannot enlarge the dollar or transfer columns and/or shrink
> the description column.
> 
> Any ideas?

Make the window less wide, so that stuff is off the right hand side.  then try 
to resize the description, as it automatically fills the space left in the 
window by the other columns...

I think that you may have shrunk the missing column to 0 pixels wide. not sure 
of the way out of that, though.  probably some very accurate mouse-positioning 
and dragging!


Maf.