gnucash environment problem

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Jan 6, 2013, at 8:47 AM, rclar <rclar.in.dc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm having a bit of a problem with gnucash, and while it is probably not a
>> bug with gnucash per se, gnucash is the only place where it has caused me a
>> problem. I am using gnucash 2.4.11 and gconftool 3.2.5 on a wheezy(ish)
>> desktop.
>> 
>> Setup - ssh into my main desktop from a remote desktop and perform a "save
>> as" of my gnucash file, exit gnucash.
>> Problem - when I return to my main desktop, gnucash does not pull up the
>> most recently "saved as" file. gnucash opens the data file that was
>> originally opened from the remote desktop before the "save as" even though
>> I have exited the program, and shell from the remote host.
>> 
>> So, how does gnucash determine what file to open when it starts, and can
>> anyone else recreate this problem?
>> 
>
> Gnucash uses GConf to store the most-recent file list and opens the 0th entry. You can see the list in ~/gconf/apps/gnucash/history/%gconf.xml. See if that's getting updated on your remote desktop with the new filename.

Could it be possible that when you run GnuCash remotely it stores the
info in your 'remote' gconf database instead of the gconf database on
the "server"?

> Regards,
> John Ralls

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-derek

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