[GNC] Settings not respected

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Am 24.12.22 um 20:06 schrieb Jeff:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> On 24/12/2022 17:57, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
>> The "what happened" is obvious, no longer accessing the files where 
>> this information is stored (note recent discussions about where these 
>> are with regard to back-up). You are back to the defaults.
> 
> I had guessed that, but it doesn't matter what I then change, I still 
> get the defaults. So some part of the settings system is broken.
> 
>> The "what caused it" not so obvious, and on that depends whether you 
>> can recover or will have to recreate.
> 
> I've got back-ups (I hope).
> 
>> You are NOT telling us what happened in between the last use of 
>> gnucash (when it was working) and this event of a couple days ago. 
>> WHAT did you change on your computer?
> 
> I'm on Debian testing, so although gnucash itself wasn't upgraded, 
> plenty of others have been in the last couple of days.
> 
> Python 3.9->3.10 was the only one I could see that was directly used by 
> gnucash.
> 
> I had also installed the -dev packages for gtk4, but gnucash uses gtk3, 
> doesn't it?

Right.


> Regards
> 
> Jeff

Under Linux the prefs are stored using dconf:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GSettings


Regards
Frank