[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Ken Heard]

On 2018-08-21 11:47, Colin Law wrote:

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> I suspect that may means that dbus-x11 is not installed.

Indeed. On receipt of your email I immediately installed dbus-x11.  It 
added two more directories to my home directory. ./dbus and 
./config/dconf.  (Is ~./conf now obsolete?) I did not have to reboot in 
order to use dbus-x11.

I opened in a terminal dconf-editor, and no longer receive the error 
messages quoted in paragraph (c) above.  To change the value of any 
variable from the default, turn off the default  and select the new 
value.  To save it hit the green box with a white √ in it located it the 
lower right corner of the window.

In short, thanks to you in particular I now have a working gnucash.  I 
owe you a beer, in fact several.  I also owe Adrien and Geert a beer or 
two as well.

I still have however a few observations/questions about dconf, etc., 
which I want to send to the three of you in due course after I complete 
my researches on the subject.

Regards, Ken