[GNC] Switch to Account that a Transfer is from by Keyboard

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 17 21:43:30 EDT 2019


In Windows <Alt-A, J> does jump to the account register window for
whichever split line the curser is sitting on, even in the Journal view.

Thanks again.

David Carlson

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 5:26 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Do any of the Devs/Docs folks know if the context-menu and mnemonics are
> documented somewhere that David and I aren’t finding?
>
> If not, is there any objection to filing a documentation bug for tracking?
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Jun 17, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >
> > David,
> >
> > The underlines you are referring to are called mnemonics. They are not
> visible by default. Once you press the activator key (`Alt` on
> Windows/Linux `Command` on Mac) you will see them. On Mac, I noticed the
> menu does not redraw while being displayed, so I had to click elsewhere to
> close the menu and then right-click again, and the underlines were then
> visible.
> >
> > This is a shame because it makes them less discoverable.
> >
> > Note, I don’t see any mnemonics in the main menus, probably because most
> of those entries have their own accelerators. (which are faster to use than
> opening a menu and then using a mnemonic)
> >
> > Here is some more info:
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3#Restoring_Visible_Mnenomics
> >
> > I just did a search of the Help file and I do not see any documentation
> on the context menu or any mnemonics.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> >
> >> On Jun 17, 2019, at 9:27 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I thought there was already a keyboard shortcut for that.  In Windows
> >> release 2.6.19, the letter *J* is underlined in the word *J*ump in the
> >> *A*ctions
> >> menu, which is supposed to indicate a keyboard shortcut.  However, when
> I
> >> tried it today, I couldn't make it work.  If it is broken, a bug report
> >> should be filed.  I could not find the proper list of shortcuts in the
> >> documentaation to see if it is documented.
> >>
> >> Curiously, in GnuCash 2.6.19 in Ubuntu 18.04, there are no underlines in
> >> the menus at all.
> >>
> >> David Carlson
> >>
> >
>
>
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