[GNC] GnuCash -- Flatpak -- Update assistance needed

[Geert Janssens]

Op zaterdag 17 augustus 2019 19:21:20 CEST schreef randix:
> So after playing with my 3.6 install on Chromebook, the accounts seem to
> work perfectly.  My issues are:
> 
> 1. When I pull up preferences, trying to change any of the preferences have
> no effect whatsoever.  So for example, I had the tabs appearing on the left
> hand side of the page, when I try to change that to the top, and you press
> the selection, nothing happens.  None of the options under Preference work
> at all.
> 
Hmm, this works fine when I run a flatpak'd gnucash on Fedora 29.

Does a Chromebook pixel have dbus and dconf installed ? The flatpak is 
supposed to communicate with those to store your settings.

> 2. GnuCash not only fills the screen, it goes off the screen.  There is no
> minimize window to click.  There is also no scroll bar, allowing you to
> scroll off to the right.
> 
What's the screen resolution on the Pixel ? Perhaps that's smaller than the 
minimum size gnucash needs ?

> So guess I'll do some research, I assume there is a config file somewhere
> where I can change settings without doing it through the preference menu?
> 
As said before, the gnucash settings system (on linux and hence flatpak) 
assumes it can communicate with dbus/dconf to handles persistent settings. 
It's not simply a file to edit.

It would at least be useful to see the trace output. Unfortunately it's not 
immediately available in flatpak (yet). You can get this output though by 
running gnucash from the command line as follows:

flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash --logto=stderr

(presuming the Pixel knows about the special 'stderr' device file)

Regards,

Geert