[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Ken Heard]

On 2018-08-18 02:16, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2018 16:52:32 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
>> I would expect that the default preferences and the changed preferences
>> would be in the same file, not in a different file.  So the defaults
>> must be somewhere where gnucash can find them.  Where would that
>> 'somewhere' be, and where would the changes be recorded?
>>
> I didn't answer this part.
> 
> As I wrote before gnucash uses GSettings, a part of glib. GSettings in turn
> uses dconf as storage backend. The defaults are compiled in the GSettings
> schema for gnucash which is typically installed in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
> 
> I don't know how and where dconf stores the changes. I never had to bother
> with that.
> 
> However by asking you to make changes with dconf-editor I'm trying to
> establish whether dconf itself is working correctly on your system.

It probably doesn't.  If so, I do not know how to fix whatever is wrong 
with it.  I have never had the occasion to use it until now.

Regards, Ken