Questions Regarding Backup and Stopping Gnucash

[Bob Brush 3]

Try this:

wmctrl -c GnuCash

Install the program wmctrl and run with the -c to "Close the window
gracefully" for the first window with the string "GnuCash" in the window
title. Running with -l will give a list of window titles if you need
some ideas of what string to use.. If you had GnuCash open 3 times with
different files you could close just one by using the filename as the
string because it is usually in the window title bar, and will probably
be unique.  While writing this email I noticed that wmctrl preferred to
close this message as it was the first window open with "GnuCash" in the
title, so not a unique string, kinda have to watch for stuff like that.

The old way, but probably not helpful, you could send key presses to the
window like this:
xvkbd -window 0x2801d95 -text "\[Control]q"
If you know the window id..

Hope this helps..

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 12:39 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Derek,
> 
> As the OP, I would like to jump in here as the topic has drifted away from
> my original post. My original question has morphed slightly into - what is
> the recommended way to stop gnucash from the command line on Linux? In
> other words, if I want to have a backup script kill gnucash at 3 AM because
> I forgot to stop it, is there a recommended way to do it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> > prl <prl at ozemail.com.au> writes:
> >
> > > In the OS X version of GnuCash, Preferences>General has a setting for
> > > Auto-save interval - and it doesn't appear possible to turn it off. I
> > > think that my setting of 5 minutes is the default.
> >
> > It is.  Set it to 0 to turn it off.
> >
> > > Presumably GnuCash on other systems has a similar facility.
> > >
> > > Peter
> >
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> > -derek
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