Questions Regarding Backup and Stopping Gnucash

[Mark Phillips]

Great tip! I will try it out tonight.

Thanks,

Mark
On Sep 23, 2013 3:54 PM, "Bob Brush 3" <bobbrush3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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