[GNC] Accidental Loss of All Existing Tabs

[David Carlson]

Apparently you have set the option under preferences to open registers in
separate windows [I don't remember the exact wording].  If you change that
to the default to open in a new tab you will automatically close all
register windows when you close the program.  I do not use that setting so
I am not sure how to close all register windows in that case.

On Sun, Dec 5, 2021, 12:56 PM <paul at kroitor.ca> wrote:

> (a resend of a mistitled prior message)
>
>
>
> For the last thirty years (has it really been that long?) I have been using
> Quicken to track the finances of about twelve entities. Most are
> individuals, but there are two non-profits, a trust, and two "real"
> companies. Starting five years ago, I have been slowly converting these to
> GnuCash, and I now have moved over four of them.
>
> Generally, I am very happy with GnuCash, and I both thank and congratulate
> everyone who has contributed to it over the years. However, like every
> software package, it has small annoyances that drive me nuts. However,
> there
> may well be (better) work-arounds other people use that I just don't know
> about, so I thought I would ask here if anyone had solutions.
>
> Issue number 1, and the most annoying, is that I like to run all my GnuCash
> files with certain standard report tabs open all the time. So, for example,
> I will keep main accounts list in tab 1, the year-to-date transactions list
> in tab 2, the multicolumn balance sheet in tab 3, then a couple of pie
> charts, and so on. Any register I open (a bank, say) comes up in a separate
> window. It generally works well, and I can easily switch back and forth
> between entities at will, as when I close the file (set of books), the
> entire configuration is saved and then gets re-established when next
> opened.
>
> The annoyance comes when I am using other apps at the same time and close
> the main (multi-tabbed) GnuCash window, without seeing that there's a bank
> register still open behind some other app. When this happens, this bank
> register becomes GnuCash's main window, and my careful constructed assembly
> of reports and graphs gets trashed (ie. it is not saved and restored upon
> the next open). I have to go into the saved reports and reload every one of
> them again, trying to remember the sequence and hoping the saved custom
> reports weren't modified without saving.
>
> Given GnuCash's window management norms, which aren't identical to Windows
> norms, I can't really think of any simple design fix. But it would be nice
> if there was a warning when closing a window containing the main accounts
> window when there were other registers still open. Surely this is rarely
> done on purpose, as one can't do much until the accounts window is reopened
> anyway.
>
> Or is there another way of preventing this mishap?
>
> Paul
>
> PS: a corollary of this is that it would be nice to have an auto-refresh
> option for GnuCash reports / graphs such that if the focus moved into a
> report or graph, it would refresh it before the window redraw. This was a
> performance issue decades ago, but certainly not any more.
>
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