[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Ken Heard]

On 2018-08-18 09:57, Colin Law 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.

gmucash 2.6.15-1, Debian Stretch

> 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*

dconf-editor:
   Installed: 3.22.3-1
   Candidate: 3.22.3-1
   Version table:
  *** 3.22.3-1 500
         500 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
dconf-service:
   Installed: 0.26.0-2+b1
   Candidate: 0.26.0-2+b1
   Version table:
  *** 0.26.0-2+b1 500
         500 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
dconf-tools:
   Installed: 0.26.0-2
   Candidate: 0.26.0-2
   Version table:
  *** 0.26.0-2 500
         500 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
dconf-gsettings-backend:
   Installed: 0.26.0-2+b1
   Candidate: 0.26.0-2+b1
   Version table:
  *** 0.26.0-2+b1 500
         500 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
dconf:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: (none)
   Version table:
dconf-cli:
   Installed: 0.26.0-2+b1
   Candidate: 0.26.0-2+b1
   Version table:
  *** 0.26.0-2+b1 500
         500 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

dconf itself is a virtual package.  The one I had not installed before 
this message was dconf-tools.  After installing it I ran dconf-edit once 
more, but with the same results as already described.

Regards, Ken