[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Adrien Monteleone]

I think Ken mentioned GnuCash 2.6.15 in Debian Stretch in the OP.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 18, 2018, at 8:57 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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