[GNC] Possible to display two account registers on

[David Carlson]

Geoff,  Thank you for that suggestion,  That seems to have unlocked it.
There are some oddities jumping from one window to the other, but I could
close the second window.

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:30 PM Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David
>
>  From your new "blank" window, use the toolbar menu and choose:
>    View / New Accounts Page
> This should open the main "Chart of Accounts" page in your new window,
> and then you can proceed as usual.
>
> IMHO this should be the default whenever you choose Window / New Window.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards
>
> Geoff
> =====
>
> On 5/02/2022 1:38 pm, David Carlson wrote:
> > The Windows  menu choice is just to the left of the Help menu choice.
> > There are two choices in the drop down,  New Window and New Window with
> > Page.  I just tried the first choice and I got a blank window with one
> menu
> > choice Close the Currently Active Page, which is literally not doing
> > anything.  According to Htop GnuCaash is process #3918 and it has 31% of
> > RAM but 0 % of CPU right now.  It has been a couple of minutes now.
>  Htop
> > can distinguish 8 individual threads in the GnuCash process.  The main
> one
> > has used 1.38.30 clock time and it is getting a few CPU cycles.  None of
> > the other threads seem to be getting any additional time.   How long
> should
> > I wait?
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 6:40 PM Art Chimes <artsonline at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I don't understand the "with Page" phrase. What does that mean?
> >>
> >> The suggestion of changing the default behavior to ALWAYS open a new
> >> window would seem to result in quite a bit of desktop clutter, at
> >> least for me. In nearly all cases in the three years I've been using
> >> Gnucash, having all accounts open in one window is definitely
> >> preferable, but good to know it's an option for those who need/want
> >> it.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 4:26 PM Ken Pyzik <pyz01 at outlook.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Using windows 11 (and probably 10) ver. 4.9, in the top menu there is
> an
> >> menu called WINDOWS.  If you click on that menu and click the New Window
> >> with page option -- you will get two windows for the same account.  This
> >> will get you the desired results I believe you want.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers!  -- Ken
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+pyz01=outlook.com at gnucash.org
> >
> >> On Behalf Of Stan Brown
> >>> Sent: Friday, February 4, 2022 12:18 PM
> >>> To: 'gnucash-user' <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> >>> Cc: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
> >>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Possible to display two account registers on
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 2022-02-04 10:29, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> >>>> In Windows 10 (and probably all other host OSes?), if you double click
> >>>> on any account in the Accounts Page window (windows  that opens when
> >>>> GNC is launched) then it will open a new floating window for that
> >>>> specific account
> >>>
> >>> That may have been added in a later GC version, but for me when I
> >> double-click on an account in the Accounts page that account's register
> >> opens in a new tab in the same window as the Accounts page. I don't find
> >> any selection for that behavior in Preferences.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, I'm running GC in Windows 10.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Stan Brown
> >>> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> >>> https://BrownMath.com
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David Carlson