Reconcile unusable

[Mark Lawrence]

On 28/01/18 05:50, Ronal B Morse wrote:
> On 01/27/2018 07:20 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> With gnucash 2.6.17 on ubuntu 17.10 I cannot do anything with the 
>> reconcile screen.  Clicking anywhere to do anything always takes me 
>> back to the main screen, I can't even close it.  It doesn't make any 
>> difference whether or not I make changes on the "Reconcile 
>> information" screen.  I've tried restarting my laptop to no avail. 
>> Several searches have revealed nothing obvious.  Any ideas as this is 
>> very frustrating? Do I need to raise a bug report or is there one all 
>> ready that my searches missed?
>>
> Mark, I'm on Ubuntu 17.10 and I'm not seeing this issue...the reconcile 
> screen and associated functions work fine.
> 
> Do you know if you are using the Wayland screen renderer or the old 
> X-org. X11 renderer?  if you're not sure, restart Ubuntu and on the 
> screen where you enter your user password there is a little gear icon 
> near the password dialog box.  Click on that.  One of the choices that 
> appear will mention Wayland, another will mention X-org.  There may be 
> others, depending upon the video in your computer.
> 
> Anyway, I believe that Ubuntu may default to using Wayland. That should 
> be indicated in the dialog.  Select the X.org option and continue your 
> normal login.  See if the problem with the reconcile screen persists.
> 
> Ron Morse
> 

Problem solved by following the above, thanks for such a fast response, 
and over the weekend as well :)

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Mark Lawrence