Using GnuCash remotely.

[Colin Law]

On 25 April 2013 23:18, 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.
>
> 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.

Yes, you are right there is an issue there.  The previous thread is
[1]. There is no problem with Save As itself, it is just that if you
then go to the remote machine and open gnucash then it will not
necessarily automatically open the new saved file, but may open the
old one instead.  If the gconf server on the remote machine has been
restarted (by logging out and back in for example, I think) then the
problem goes away.  I guess the same thing will apply if you make
other settings changes remotely.

[1] http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2013-January/047111.html

Colin



[1] http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2013-January/047111.html

>
> 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.
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >> gnucash-user mailing list
>> >> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
>> >> -----
>> >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>> >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>> >>
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > gnucash-user mailing list
>> > gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
>> > -----
>> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.