[GNC] Cycle between basic, autosplit, transaction views?

[david whiting]

Sure. As Geert said the file that needs to be changed is accelerator-map,
which on linux is located in $HOME/.local/share/gnucash. The exact steps I
followed are:

   1. Close gnucash
   2. Copy accelerator-map to accelerator-map.backup just in case something
   goes wrong
   3. Edit $HOME/.local/share/gnucash/accelerator-map using a text editor
   4. Look for a line that says:
   ; (gtk_accel_path
   "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleJournalAction" "")
   Note that the line has a semi-colon at the beginning to comment it out
   so it is not currently used. At the end before the last closing parenthesis
   there is a pair of double quotes. The key combination will go there.
   5. Change that to:
   (gtk_accel_path
   "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleJournalAction"
   "<Primary>3")
   Note that as well as adding <Primary>3 you need to remove the leading
   semi-colon
   6. Repeat the process for the other two views (ViewStyleAutoSplitAction
   and ViewStyleBasicAction)
   7. Exit and save the accelerator-map file
   8. Start gnucash and check the menu to see that it now says Ctrl+1,
   Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3 by each of the relevant menu entries:

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David

On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 17:02, Roderick Anderson <raanders42 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Fantastic David.
>
> Would you be willing to share the code you used?
>
>
> \\||/
> Rod
> --
>
> On 3/29/20 4:52 AM, david whiting wrote:
> > Excellent. Thank you! I now have ctrl+1 for basic view, ctrl+2 for
> > autosplit and ctrl+3 for transaction journal view. All quick and easy.
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 11:38, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> You may be able to customize the hotkeys for the three menu functions.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Ubuntu there should be file named "accelerator-maps" in
> >>
> >> $HOME/.local/share/gnucash
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It's listing all hotkeys configured in gnucash. You can search for
> >>
> >> <Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleJournalAction
> >> <Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleAutoSplitAction
> >> <Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleBasicAction
> >>
> >> and define your own hotkeys for these.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> <Primary> Stands for <CTRL>
> >>
> >> <Shift> is self-explanatory
> >>
> >> I don't know what to use for the <Alt> key, though just that may work.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Good luck!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Geert
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Op zondag 29 maart 2020 12:09:12 CEST schreef david whiting:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> OS: Ubuntu 19.10
> >>
> >>> Gnucash: Build ID: 3.7+(2019-09-07)
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> Is there any way to set up a hotkey to cycle between the basic ledger,
> >>
> >>> autosplit ledger and transaction journal views? I find it useful to
> >> switch
> >>
> >>> between them depending on how much detail I need to see and although it
> >> is
> >>
> >>> not a huge number of clicks I find that I do it often enough to become
> a
> >>
> >>> drag to grab the mouse (I prefer the keyboard), move to the view menu,
> >>
> >>> select the option, and then go back to the keyboard. Being able to
> cycle
> >>
> >>> between the views using a key combination would help with my flow.
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> Thanks for any suggestions.
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> David
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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David Whiting
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