Environmental file issue

[John Ralls]

On Nov 6, 2012, at 5:15 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> On 04-11-12 21:43, David Carlson wrote:
>> On 11/4/2012 1:58 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>> 
>>> gconftool-2 -g /apps/gnucash/history/file0
>>> 
>>> GnuCash will automatically load the first file that is stored in its
>>> history list. This history list is stored in gconf. The command above
>>> shows you what the first file is.
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure what your problem is, but it may be helpful for you to
>>> know that you can always specify a file to open on the command line.
>>> So if you login via ssh, you can start gnucash with the file you want
>>> as follows:
>>> gnucash <path-to-your-file>
>>> 
>>> Geert
>> Geert,
>> 
>> Does your answer also work in Windows and Mac environments?
>> 
>> David C
>> 
> I don't know about OS X. I seem to remember the Quartz build requires some special tricks at startup of the application to get gconf running properly.
> 
> On Windows it works if you invoke the command from the gnucash bin directory (just verified this on my Windows XP test box). So you can
> - start a command prompt
> - cd to where you have installed gnucash (eg c:\Program Files\gnucash\bin)
> - run the above command

Do we bundle gconftool with Win32? It's not in the Mac bundle, but I expect it's available with MacPorts. On any system you
can just `cat ~/.gconf/apps/gnucash/history/%gconf.xml` and see the file list.

Regards,
John Ralls