[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 16:19, Ken Heard <kenslists at teksavvy.com> wrote:

>
> I have discovered that I do not have a file ~/.config/dconf. Perhaps the
> absence of such a fine has prevented my from changing any of my gnucash
> preferences. So I suppose my next step is somehow to create one, yes?
>
>
Well since the proposed fix was to delete it and let dconf recreate it then
no.  It should have been created automatically.  What does
ps -aux|grep dconf
show?  I suspect it will show that dconf-service is not running.
Also can you reboot then run
cat /var/log/syslog | grep dconf
to see if there are any dconf messages in the log
and
ls -al ~/|grep \\.config
to check the ownership and settings on .config

Colin