[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 15:19, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

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

I missed that.  Thanks.

Ken, dconf not working can be caused by corrupted dconf config files.  This
can happen if there is power fail apparently.  Try this in a terminal after
closing all apps down.
mv .config/dconf  .config/dconf.save
which will move that folder out of the way,  dconf should recreate it.  Log
out and back in again (this may not be necessary in fact, not sure), then
try dconf-editor again and see if it saves things now.
You may well find that other apps that use dconf will have gone back to
default values.

If doing this messes things up then you can always restore the orginal using
mv .config/dconf .config/dconf.regenerated
mv .config/dconf.save .config/dconf
If the first command says it can't find .config/dconf then that is ok, it
just means it had not been recreated.

Colin