Have to search to open Gnucash

[Maf. King]

On Thursday, 3 March 2016 23:46:38 GMT Richard Barmann wrote:
> On 03/03/2016 07:19 PM, Maf. King wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 Mar 2016 13:54:47 Richard Barmann wrote:
> >> When I close Gnucash I close it with the drop down from FILE. I click 
on
> >> CLOSE and then QUIT. When I want to reopen it none of the four 
urls
> >> shown will work and I have to hunt for the proper one to get it open.
> >> The four listed on the first page that Gnucash show says it cannot 
find
> >> them. It is saving in Data/reb68/Striping/BusinessGnuCash. What 
am I
> >> doing wrong?
> > 
> > Hi Dick,
> > 
> > It sounds to me as though GC isn't saving the preferences properly.  
Which
> > version of GC are you using at the moment? (the way the prefs are 
handled
> > changed between 2.4 and 2.6, IIRC)
> > 
> > Which Linux flavour and Desktop are you using?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Maf.
> > 
> > 
> > I am using Gnucash 2.6.6 (rev 132c9e3) OS is Kubuntu 15.10. I will try
> > closing without clicking CLOSE.
> Dick Thanks

HI Dick,

I think it more likely to be something like a permissions problem rather 
than the way you quit GC.

GC 2.6.x stores various options (including the last-run files list) using a 
package called gsettings, which as far as I can tell needs to be able to 
write to a file at ~/.config/dconf/user  (does that file exist and is it 
writeable by the user?)

If you can see the file above, using a shell prompt, do you get some 
output from this command:

gsettings list-schemas | grep gnucash

if you get a list of things, what do you get from this:

gsettings list-recursively org.gnucash.history
(should be the list of files in the last-run section of the file menu)

Maf.