[GNC] multiple accounts

[David Cousens]

Bob,

If you are only using one or two sets of books you can create two entries in
the Linux Mint menu for gnucash and edit the command to specifically open
one or other of the data file by supplying a full path to the command.

if you open a terminal and type gnucash --help  you will get the help  which
gives you the command format for starting gnucash.

Not sure how familiar you are with editing the Linux Mint Menu. Right click
on the Menu icon at the lower left of the screen and select Configure. When
the dialog opens up select the Menu button at the top and thern click on
"Open the Menu Editor" button. When the editor opens up, click on the
"Office" item in the LH panel which will display the menu items under that
heading in the RH panel.  It is better to create a new launcher as the
system defined ones do not have an editable Name (don't know why).
Click the New Item button In the Name field type in GnuCash and something
which identifies the file you want to open in GnuCash ( a persons name etc)
so you will be able to distinguish this from a second launcher for the other
file. To select an icon click on the rocket ship icon Select browse in the
popup and browse to /usr/local/share/gnucash/pixmaps and select
gnucash-icon.ico, click on the icon image in the editor and hit the Select
button to assign it to the launcher. In the Command field type gnucash <path
to your datafile> using the full path to the file you want to open. The
Launcher properties editor should look like  Launcher_Properties_023.png
<http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t375329/Launcher_Properties_023.png>  
when you are finished. *Note if the path has filenames with spaces in it
enclose the path in quotes.*

Setup the second launcher with the other file path the same way (and more
launchers if you have more than two files). You may want to delete the
original launcher that was created on installation. It usually displays as
GnuCash + name of the last file opened in the Menu which then can be a bit
confusing to have two launchers pointing to the same file.

David Cousens



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