Preferences aren't saved

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Dear GnuCash community,

I'm using GnuCash on the GNU GuixSD distribution, and for some reason
the preferences are not remembered (for example the initial tips pop-up
always come back even if I uncheck the checkbox).

From what I could gather from GnuCash's FAQ, the preferences would be
stored using Gsettings. I'm _not_ using a full-blown desktop such as
Gnome, so maybe that component is missing.

How could I make gnucash more verbose so that I can see what is
happening? Looking at the source it seems some messages should be
printed if no preference backend is found (for example, there is this in
gnc-prefs.c: LEAVE("no backend loaded, or the backend doesn't define
register_cb, returning 0");)

I've tried: "gnucash --debug --extra" but it doesn't print anything
except that Finance::Quote was found. I'm not sure how to use the
"--log" option (what logger path should I use to log everything?).

Thank you,

Maxim
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