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Sat Jan 16 23:54:50 EST 2021

Hi,

FWIW, I don't think anything I said was Big-Sur-specific, but I thought I'd
specify it, well, just because.... 😊

-P.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 11:32 PM Peter West <lists at pbw.id.au> wrote:

> 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
> >>>>>> 253-350-0166
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