Using GnuCash remotely.

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:18:52 -0400 rclar <rclar.in.dc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> GnuCash is inconsistent in its handling of the gconf based settings. Based
> upon my limited understanding it is undefined who owns the "session" when
> you are shelled in. In my experience GnuCash will open the most recently
> used file out of gconf as if you were on the remote machine, but if you do
> a save as, you run the risk of not working off the most recent file, if you
> are on that remote machine at a later time.

It probably isn't really an inconsistentcy as a matter of file system
differences between the machine GnuCash is running on and the machine where
the X-Server is running on (which would be where gconfd would be running). It
is *probably* not a totally clever idea to store things like file pathnames in
something linked to the X11-Server context and expecting things to work when
using some sort of remote X11 connection. I suspect that this would also
affect other applications that do something like this. It *probably* makes
better sense for GnuCash (like various other GTK applications, like OO or
Gimp) to store file pathnames someplace like $HOME/.gnucash/<mumble>, rather
than use gconf. gconf is fine for things that make sense being bound to the
X11 server (like colors or fonts or window sizes, etc.).  
'$HOME/.gnucash/<mumble>' would always be on the *same* machine as GnuCash is 
running on and not dependent on the machine the X11 server is running on.

OTOH, I *always* run GnuCash from a script which passes an explitit file 
pathname on the command line and never do a 'save as', and thus neatly avoid 
this sort of problem.


> 
> I discussed this on the mailing list a bit back, and can forward the thread
> if you can't find it. Gconf is deprecated, so there will be no hope there,
> and I have had no luck trying to learn how gsettings will handle the
> situation.
> 
> I run ssh -X all the time, but stopped doing save as (which I normally do
> weekly) from anywhere but my main desktop.
> On Apr 25, 2013 5:04 PM, "Colin Law" <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 25 April 2013 22:00, rclar <rclar.in.dc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ssh -Y all the time, just don't "save as"....
> >
> > Why not?
> >
> > Colin
> >
> > > On Apr 25, 2013 4:10 PM, "Buddha Buck" <blaisepascal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Has anyone had luck with running GnuCash remotely via "ssh -X"?  I
> > expect
> > >> it will work fine, assuming I can get anything to work fine with "ssh
> > -X",
> > >> as I don't think GnuCash is too display-server intensive.
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