can't change preferences

[Geert Janssens]

Op zondag 4 februari 2018 09:48:49 CET schreef Graham Menhennitt:
> Hi GnuCashers,
> 
> I'm running GnuCash 2.6.19 on FreeBSD 11-stable. Everything seems to
> work correctly except that I can't change any preferences. I try to
> click on the tick boxes/radio buttons etc. in the Edit Preferences
> dialog, but nothing happens. It's as if everything is read-only.
> 
> I presume that the reason for this also causes that it doesn't remember
> my most recent open files, and it always shows tips on startup even
> though I unticked the "show tips" box.
> 
> Does anybody have any clues, please?
> 
The gnucash preferences are stored in gsettings. This is a generic preferences 
store that requires a platform dependent backend. On linux this backend is 
dconf. I presume this is also what would be used on FreeBSD. Can you check if 
dconf is installed (and used) ?

Regards

Geert