[GNC] Recent list in file menu

Peter West lists at pbw.id.au
Sat Jan 16 23:32:02 EST 2021 

I don’t have Big Sur, but I can just drag the icon from the Applications folder opened in FInder, onto the Dock. Then I can start Gnucash by double-clocking the icon in the dock. I suppoe it depends how busy you Dock is already.

peter

> On 17 Jan 2021, at 1:41 pm, Peter S. Shenkin <shenkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Big Sur, I have Gnucash installed directly under /Applications, which is
> the default Installer option.
> 
> I either double-click the icon, or, in a Terminal window, type "open
> /Applications/Gnucash.app".
> 
> If you have Gnucash.app installed somewhere else, just type open <full path
> to>/Gnucash.app. Once it opens, the icon will appear in the side bar. You
> can then right click on it and select Options > Keep in dock. From then on,
> you can just click the icon.
> 
> FWIW (for geeks), I have a function set up in my .bashrc. The declaration
> says:
> 
> appo() {
>    # "appo Foo" will recite "open /Applications/Foo.app"
>    open /Applications/$1.app
> }
> 
> 
> The comment (beginning with the # sign) tells how I start an app that's in
> /Applications from a Terminal session. For Gnucash, I just say "appo
> Gnucash". (The mnemonic is "app open".)
> 
> I hope the above helps.
> 
> -P.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 9:05 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> Yes tried it without and get "Couldn't find an application named "Gnucash";
>> defaults unchanged" so it definitely seems to need the folder name in
>> addition to the app name.  Might uninstall on my Macbook Pro later and
>> re-install to apps folder only and see if it makes any difference.
>> 
>> Cheers David H.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 09:30, David Reiser <dbreiser at icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Have you tried without the extra directory info?
>>> man defaults says that the -app flag specifies the name of the app, not a
>>> directory. I haven’t tested it myself, and the manfile is a bit vague on
>>> details here. But since defaults write is writing to the pfile in
>> Library,
>>> it doesn’t have to know the location of Gnucash. Gnucash reads the pfile
>> on
>>> launch, so it shouldn’t matter where the app is stored.
>>> --
>>> Dave Reiser
>>> dbreiser at icloud.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 16, 2021, at 5:54 PM, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi David,
>>>> 
>>>> Been playing around with that exact same setting for a while now but it
>>>> doesn't seem to work on my Big Sur / Gnucash 4.4 system.
>>>> 
>>>> My setup is slightly different in that I installed Gnucash in
>>>> /Applications/GnuCash as opposed to /Applications itself, so I've been
>>>> tinkering with
>>>> 
>>>> defaults write -app GnuCash/Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles" 5
>> but
>>>> no luck so far....
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers David H.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 07:52, David Carlson <
>> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
>>>> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
>>>>>> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
>>>>>> kg7je at arrl.net
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