GnuCash 2.4.10 on Debian wheezy - holding x11 channels

[Mike Evans]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 08:53:38 +0100
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 September 2014 10:56, Phil Reynolds
> <phil-gnucash at tinsleyviaduct.com> wrote:
> > I am running GnuCash on my laptop. When I want to use my desktop
> > machine to access it, I do so via ssh. If I do ssh hostcame gnucash, it
> > runs just fine, but is still holding 3 channels open after closing,
> > according to the ssh debug. This means I have to do Ctrl-C to get the
> > prompt back.
> >
> > Is this a known/fixable issue with GnuCash?
> 
> I can't seem to find the details at the moment but I suspect this is
> an X issue rather than gnucash.  I can't find the right keywords to
> search for in launchpad.  See if you get the same symptoms running
> other apps, gedit, firefox, nautilus, whatever.  Try a few and see if
> any of them show the problem.
> 
> Colin
>

I get the same behaviour using many applications over an ssh
connection with X forwarding, geany and claws-mail to name but two so I
too think this is nothing to do with GnuCash directly.

Mike E
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