Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting

John R. Sowden jsowden at americansentry.net
Wed Jun 5 12:14:39 EDT 2013


On 06/05/2013 02:00 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> On 6/5/2013 3:20 AM, Michael Hendry wrote:
>> On 5 Jun 2013, at 01:05, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/04/2013 04:18 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>>>> On 6/4/2013 4:41 PM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>>>>> John R. Sowden wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Instead of being locked into starting a 'default' accounts database,
>>>>>> can I open gc with no set of accounts, or a window listing the
>>>>>> existing ones with the 'new' option?  Then I can select the one that
>>>>>> I want.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a command line option?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John
>>>> John,
>>>>
>>>> If your goal is to have more than one set of books, say My_books,
>>>> Moms_books, just create two data files or even 17 different data files.
>>>> Then, depending on your OS you can put icons on your desktop then double
>>>> click on whichever one you want to work with next.
>>>>
>>>> David C
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>>> worked like a charm!
>> That's odd - from previous threads on the list, I'd understood that double-clicking on a GnuCash file icon would open the most recently opened GnuCash file, not the one that had been double-clicked.
>>
>> Has this behaviour been changed recently?
>>
>> Michael
>>
> No, it has not.  The difference is whether you are looking at the icon
> that represents the program or at icons that represent data files.  You
> can create an icon to represent any data file such as a document,
> spreadsheet, GnuCash file or even a picture of your pet and place it on
> your desktop for easy reference.  Since those icons represent data
> files, they open the specific data file with the appropriate program.
>
> The procedure that you use to create these data file icons is slightly
> different depending on whether you are in Windows, Apple or Linux.
>
> Curiously, the icons that represent data files look almost identical to
> the program icons.  I think that they should look different, but I am
> not about to learn how to customize the appearance of icons.
>
> David C
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> when I tried the solution, I modified the command line in the launcher.
> I entered:
>
>   /usr/bin/gnucash Chart.gnucash.
>
> Under working directory, I put: /home/john/gnucash
>
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>
> I might mention that when I ran it the first time, it said it could not
> find the file and it indicated that it had looked in
> /home/john/.gnucash.  I got rid of the period that it had added and all
> is well.
>
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>
> I noticed you mentioned 'double-click'.  Please not I am running Ubuntu
> Linux (not win)
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> John
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