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

[Geert Janssens]

Regarding the settings, this section in the flatpak documentation is probably 
relevant:
http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html#dconf-access

I haven't figured it all out yet, but it seems flatpak itself is in a state of 
transition from using external dconf access to using a sandboxed dconf 
instance. That latter requires a fairly recent version of xdg-desktop-portal 
installed on your system.
If you don't have that, you can try to add the command line switches as 
outlined in the green box to your flatpak run command like so

flatpak run --filesystem=xdg-run/conf \
            --filesystem=~/.config/dconf:ro \
            --talk-name=ca.desrt.dconf \
            --env=DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR=.config/dconf run org.gnucash.GnuCash

You may again require sudo rights for this to work.

Geert

Op zaterdag 17 augustus 2019 20:30:57 CEST schreef 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
> 
> 
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