Changing the right-most column width

[Dave H]

I don't have an issue on Windows 7, 8 or 10 and 2.6.14 making the Balance
column wider that double clicking the column header gives me, although
there's a bit of a trick to it I guess.

I have GnuCash setup so it's not quite full screen - about 2-3 cm's of
screen either side of the GnuCash window on a 23 inch monitor. Then I very
carefully move the cursor to the right hand side of the Balance column
until it changes shape into the vertical double lines with the horizontal
double ended arrow across them - this sometimes takes a bit of trial and
error.

Once it's changed shape I then left click and hold and drag to beyond the
right hand edge of the GnuCash window, which is why you need a bit of
screen space to the right of the GnuCash window.  Then I let go of the
mouse button and double click in the Description column header to size it
back down a bit which pulls back the Balance column to be completely within
the gnucash window.

Hope this helps,

Cheers Dave H.

On 30 November 2016 at 17:17, Dean Gibson <gnucash.stuff at mailpen.com> wrote:

> Yes, I've read the Wiki FAQ 4.17, and understand that:
>
> 1.   Double-clicking the column header resizes the column to hold the
>    widest value.
> 2. I can drag the right border of any column header to resize the
>    column manually, EXCEPT for the description column (that's OK), and
>    EXCEPT for the right-hand column (typically the balance; that's NOT OK).
>
> Doing #2 with the right-hand column appears to just resize the description
> column.
>
> The only way I have found to resize the right-hand column (the balance) to
> a larger width than all the current numbers in that column (eg, for
> readability), is to create a transaction with a large enough amount,
> double-click the column header to get the desired size, and then delete the
> transaction.
>
> If there's a better way, I'm all ears.
>
> System: Windows 10, v2.6.14.
>
> When I first went to v2.6, I found the above so disgusting that I went
> back to 2.4, but alas, I needed the new features in Scheduled Transactions,
> so I've been back with v2.6 for a couple years.
>
> My guess is that, with the GUI package you are using, there are
> complexities of support/compatibility with multiple platforms, so you are
> stuck with it for the time being.
>
> A year ago I investigated where the column widths are stored, and it
> appeared very easy to write a script to apply fixed sizes to almost all
> columns in all transaction registers.  I just haven't gotten around to it.
>
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