[GNC] cut/paste problem in 3.4?

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 1 18:31:13 EDT 2019


Check my answer in the other thread with the same subject line about anchor
accounts.  That is where the 'problem' lies.

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 4:25 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Might indeed be a stray cosmic ray, or temporarily insane electrons, but
> this stood out for me:
>
> > Earlier when I saw the problem, the cut did work,
> > the transaction vanished from the source account, but
> > when I pasted it into the destination account, it magically appeared
> again
> > in the source account but not the destination account.
>
> My first suspicion would be a mouse/window focus problem. It did paste it,
> but not in the window you were expecting it to. Since you can paste into
> emacs, the problem is either intermittent, or somehow limited to GnuCash.
>
> I do know GnuCash on MacOS at least, has a focus problem where you must
> click the title bar sometimes to get it to accept input even though the
> window ‘appears’ to be in focus. If that’s your OS, do a search for some
> threads in the last 6-8 months and something might pop up. I think though
> this isn’t a GnuCash bug, but a GTK+ bug. (if I recall correctly.)
>
> Maybe do a trial with clicking the GnuCash title bar first, then pasting,
> and see which window it gets pasted into.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
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