[GNC] Automatic Price Updates

[rsbrux]

A little further study suggests that I should have placed 
config-user.scm in GNC_CONFIG_HOME (in my case 
$HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/config/gnucash/) instead of 
GNC_DATA_HOME (see 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#In_GNC_CONFIG_HOME).

However, moving it there still did not have the desired effect (i.e. no 
new prices appeared in GC's Price DB, even after leaving GC open for a 
quarter hour).  It occurred to me that this could be caused by 
inadequate privileges, but changing the privileges of config-user.scm to 
775 (and restarting GC) still did not result in any new price quotes.

As previously mentioned I would like this behaviour to be 
user-independent.  It appears that I should be able to achieve this by 
redirecting GNC_CONFIG_HOME to a common direct by means of environment 
variable.  However, the pages 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations and 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Environment_Variables disagree on the 
names of the environment variables.

On 28.11.22 08:53, rsbrux wrote:
> Of course.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 27 Nov 2022, at 22:41, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>> Did you restart GnuCash?
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 27, 2022, at 11:07 AM, rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> P.S. I created the file $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash/config-user.scm
>>>
>>> with the contents:
>>>
>>>   (gnc-hook-add-scm-dangler HOOK-UI-POST-STARTUP
>>>     (lambda () (gnc:book-add-quotes #f (gnc-get-current-book)))
>>>
>>> under my own Ubuntu login, but the price database does not show any new prices when I open GC and let it sit for half an hour.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>>> On 27.11.22 18:35, rsbrux wrote:
>>>> Thanks, that sounds very promising! My only problem is that I have a Flatpak installation under Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> According to https://code.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GNC_DATA_HOME, GNC_DATA_HOME is under $HOME.
>>>>
>>>> However, I have installed GC for all users on the system and want the startup task to run regardless of who is running GC.
>>>>
>>>> If I put config-user.scm in $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash, won't it be user-specific?
>>>>
>>>> On 25.11.22 21:07, john wrote:
>>>>>> On Nov 25, 2022, at 12:56 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I used to have a chron job set up to automatically fetch security prices on first login each day, but found this inconvenient because it locks the data file, and opening GnuCash is often the first thing I do upon logging in.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have noticed that when I have GC open interactively, I can start an update in the price database window and let it run in the background while I continue to work in the registers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would there be some way to get GC to perform the Price Database automatically when GC is started (interactively), instead of performing the automatic price update in a separate session?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, but only through 4.x because the quotes system won't be accessible from Scheme in GnuCash 5, it having been rewritten in C++.
>>>>>
>>>>> Create if necessary $GNC_DATA_HOME/config-user.scm and edit it to add
>>>>>   (gnc-hook-add-scm-dangler HOOK-UI-POST-STARTUP
>>>>>     (lambda () (gnc:book-add-quotes #f (gnc-get-current-book)))
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> John Ralls
>>>>>
>>>>>