GnuCash Column Width

[Maf. King]

On Sunday, 20 November 2016 09:38:03 GMT Cheryl Wheeler via gnucash-user 
wrote:
> Yes, I read it. In particular, this:
> > A column can also be resized to fit the data by double clicking in the
> > column header.
> 
> If you are referring to the special nature of the Description column,
> well, I didn't even have the Description column displayed.
> 
> Example: I have some account names that are longer than the current
> width of the Accounts column. I double-click the Accounts column header.
> The width doesn't change, but the tab re-sorts by the account name
> twice, once for each click. I displayed the Description column and
> tested again; no difference. I double-clicked on the Description column
> header. The tab re-sorted twice by Description, and column width did not
> change. I would expect it to get wider, because I have a lot of blank
> space to the right of my right-most column.
> 
> Basically, double-clicks seem not to be detected in the column header on
> my machine. Double-clicking works elsewhere in GnuCash, though.
> 

Hi Cheryl,

Are you talking about an account register view, or the Accounts"tree" - ie the 
list of all accounts?

AFAIK, the double clicking is for the former type tabs only.

HTH,
Maf.