[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 14:52, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> Op zaterdag 18 augustus 2018 15:47:06 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
> > On 2018-08-18 02:07, Colin Law wrote:
> > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 22:59 Ken Heard, <kenslists at teksavvy.com> wrote:
> > >> On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote:
> > >>> The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it
> just
> > >>> appears in the bottom bar of the window.
> > >>>
> > >>> Colin
> > >>
> > >> I don't even see it there.  The bottom bar has this text "The change
> > >> will be applied on such request or if you quit this view." followed by
> > >> two buttons. The first is blue with a check mark in it.
> > >
> > > That is the Apply button. My version has the text, apparently you have
> a
> > > different version.
> >
> > If that button is supposed to be the apply button, it does not apply the
> > changes.  Clicking on is restores the defaults.
> >
> > Clicking on the text line itself does nothing.
> >
> That means dconf is not working properly on your system. And that explains
> why
> it's not working in gnucash either.
>
> Is the dconf package installed on your system ? This is separate from the
> dconf-editor package.
>

@Ken have you told us which OS and version you are using?  I can't find it
in the thread.
On my Ubuntu 18.04 there isn't a package dconf, but there are a number of
other dconf packages.
If it is an Ubuntu or Debian system what does this command show:
apt-cache policy dconf*

Colin


>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
>
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