Reconcile window opens invisible on El Capitan

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 16, 2015, at 10:17 AM, David Bergum <dib at red-sky.us> wrote:
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>> On Nov 16, 2015, at 10:06, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>>> On Nov 16, 2015, at 4:28 AM, David Bergum <dib at red-sky.us> wrote:
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>>> I am running gnucash 2.6.9 on Mac OS 10.11.1 on a MacBook Pro with an external monitor.  I have gnuCash opening on my primary display.  When I open the reconcile function, the window briefly flashes on the primary display and then disappears.  It is being displayed somewhere off the displays.   If I launch Mission Control, I can see both windows and they reposition as a pair, which is quite different from other apps windows.
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>>> When I move them to the external (secondary) display, the reconcile window is repositioned to the upper left of the main accounts window.  It took me quite a while the first time to figure out how to coerce the reconcile window into the visible universe.  If I move the windows independently in Mission Control, the reconcile window remains invisible.
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>>> This may be an issue with gtk on Mac?
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>>> I'm mentioning this jic another user stumbles onto it.
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>> It’s certainly a Gtk issue, there’s nothing special GnuCash is doing. It may be something new with ElCap. I’ve been using GnuCash on a dual-monitor Mac Pro for many years without seeing this, but it’s still on Yosemite.
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> Perhaps there is some corruption in state saved in gtk?
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Seems unlikely. Gtk itself doesn’t save any state, and when I looked in GnuCash’s saved state (it’s in ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/books/your-data-file-name.gcm) I didn’t see any for the reconcile window. By all means check yours. In the event you’re not familiar with Unix convention, “~” means your home directory; to navigate to it with Finder you need to either enable it in View Options or use Finder's Go>Go To Folder… (shift-cmd-g).

Once you have both windows visible are you able to reposition them independently on the screen, i.e. not in Mission Control?

Regards,
John Ralls