Changing the right-most column width

Dave H hellvee at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 16:39:08 EST 2016


Ah yes I think I see the issue now that I've tried dragging it out a few
inches - my balances are only ever in the tens of thousands so I've never
needed to expand it that far :-(

It seems you can only expand the Balance column so far and after you let go
the mouse button the Description shoots out and expand to fill all the
additional space you've dragged out to and the horizontal scroll bar
appears.

I don't mind the UI - maybe I've gotten used to it after a few years of
using it.

Cheers Dave H.

On 1 December 2016 at 03:53, Dean Gibson <gnucash.stuff at mailpen.com> wrote:

> Yep, done that MANY TIMES (and just now verified again w/ your
> instructions).  Drag the right border (the "vertical double lines") to the
> right, five INCHES past the right window border of GnuCash.  When the mouse
> button is released, the only column width that changes is the description.
>
> Even if that were to work, it's a terrible UI.  And then, after all that
> fun, you have to do it again for the next transaction window.
>
> On 2016-11-30 01:50, Dave H wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
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