Mavericks / Incremental account search not working

[John Ralls]

On Feb 28, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Paul McNett <paul at mcnettware.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been using gnucash for a few years now, moved from Quicken, and I like it.
> 
> Last week I upgraded to a new MacBook Pro with Mavericks (OS X 10.9) and GnuCash 2.6.1. Works well, however I can no longer start typing an account name in the account window and have Gnucash advance to the nearest match.
> 
> Was this feature removed?
> 
> I have lots of accounts in hierarchical organization and have come to rely on this feature, it seems.
> 
> Let me know if you need more information. I did do some searching on Google but only found issues with stock quoting or something, which I don't use. It's possible I'm not using the correct term for "incremental search" though.

This is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707945. You can work around it by disabling the imquartz module; the simplest way to do that is to remove the file Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk-immodules.

Regards,
John Ralls