[GNC] ​Re: 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 not saving preferences

[Tim Kallmer]

David,

GC is not touching gtk-3.0.css or accelerator-map in
/home/<user>/.config/gnucash.

GC does touch accelerator-map in /home/<user>/.local/share/gnucash, but
gtk-3.0.css is not there. If I copy it there, GC does not touch it.

And I cannot find any gtk-3.0.css in /home/<user>/ that it is touching.

I suppose I will try to go back to 4.6 and see if it works again.


> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 06:10:02 +1000
> From: davidcousens49 at gmail.com
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 not saving preferences
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> 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
>
>