[GNC] Recent list in file menu

[David Carlson]

Searching the archives of this list I found a thread a year ago.  This
suggestion was part way through the thread: <
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-January/089080.html>
It seems to be only for Mac computers so there is no info that I could find
for Linux or Windoze.  For either it might be an OS or workspace setting.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 12:51 PM Stephen M. Butler <
Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/16/21 9:15 AM, Michael Hendry wrote:
> >> On 15 Jan 2021, at 03:30, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Maybe I searched for the wrong term.  I would never have guessed to
> search
> >> for plist or mru, for example.
> > I’ve found the relevant file here:
> >
> > ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnucash.Gnucash.plist
> >
> > but I can’t locate the Key that defines the maximum number of
> recently-used files for display (hereinafter called “MRU_MAX"), which
> defaults to 4 on my iMac Catalina running 4.4.
> >
> > I notice that the Keys org.gnucash.history.file0 to
> org.gnucash.history.file9 contain fully qualified filenames for the ten
> books I have opened most recently, which suggests that MRU_MAX up to 10
> could be supported if the default of 4 were changed.
> >
> > There seems not to ba a way of adjusting MRU_MAX using GnuCash’s
> Preferences, so I’m stuck!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael
> Check the recent archives as I remember a discussion that if the key
> entry doesn't exist, it defaults to 4.  You have to create the entry
> name/value pair in order to change it.  They gave the key name in that
> discussion.
>
>
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David Carlson