[GNC] 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 not saving preferences

[Michael or Penny Novack]

And it goes without saying. after identifying the names of the files, 
check the permissions. This symptom (not saving changes) could be not 
having write access. Long time ago when I was first using gnucash, I had 
the problem of not being able to save user preferences and that's what 
it turned out to be.

Michael D Novack



On 12/20/2021 3:10 PM, davidcousens49 at gmail.com wrote:
> Tim,
>
> Any changes to the gtk setup files are going to be inunder
> /home/<user>/.config/gnucash. If you check the date accessed for gtk3.0.css in
> the filemanager. This should be the date and time you last started GnuCash. You
> may need to aldd the date Accessed to the display window. Right click on the
> header bar and check the Date Acessed in the drop down list.  ANy customized
> reports will be in a "gnucash directory under this location
>
> The user preferences and meta data files are located under
> /home/<user>/.local/share/gnucash. If you check the data accessed in the file
> manager on the saved-reports-2.8, stylesheets-2.0 and accelerator-map. it should
> also be set at the date/time of last access. In the subdirectory books you will
> find a file with the same name as your datafile with a .gcm extension. The date
> accessed on this should also be similar. If so this will indicate that GNuCash
> is finding the locations.
>
> These locations and their contents on the various OS's and GC versions are
> detailed in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations.
>
> If not, it would appear that there is a problem locating these files on your
> system. I built GC4.9 on Linux Mint 20.2 last night and installed to /usr/local
> and it is working without any problems. I use a dark theme and have modified a
> few colors to suit and these have all been retained. The account colors are
> stored in the data file and these have also been retained in 4.9 on my system.
> Ubuntu 20.04 should not be significantly different from Linux Mint.
>
> In the above web page there are a number of environment variables which can be
> set if these directories are not in the standard locations. They are not be set
> by default but can be set if your config data is not in the default locations.
> If you can locate the files you could try setting the environment variables to
> the locations in which you find the files.
>
> Hope this helps , if not come back to the forum.
>
> David Cousens
>
> On Mon, 2021-12-20 at 12:10 -0500, Tim Kallmer wrote:
>> I built 4.9 and installed in home/[user]/.local over my previous 4.6
>> version. Everything went smoothly, but each time I start GC, it is like it
>> is a fresh start with no preferences saved, no splash screen, and the
>> working file not remembered. My working file does open when I select it
>> manually, but account colors do not show even after changing the
>> preference. All of the registers have white backgrounds also.
>>
>> I tried it twice, once with cmake and another time with ninja. Both
>> installs are acting the same. I am not blocking localhost or 127.0.0.1.
>> Ideas?
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