[GNC] Saving window position (and size)

Martin Booth mdj.booth at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jul 12 13:12:37 EDT 2022 

Hi David,
No issues for me.
I am running GS 4.11 on Ubuntu 22.04 and the windows stay in the same
place where I left them when I last closed GS
Regards,
Martin 


On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 09:48 -0500, David Carlson wrote:
> Tracy,
> 
> I would not like a desktop that did not remember where a window was
> located
> on the desktop/display combination when last used.  Any other users
> seeing
> similar issues?
> 
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:32 AM Tracy <gnulist at vbot.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > Everything I can find says that Gnome (the desktop environment set
> > up by
> > default in Ubuntu 22.04 - which was also the desktop environment
> > used in
> > 20.04, which worked as expected) does not save window placement
> > information. Instead, it is the responsibility of the application.
> > Gnome
> > will attempt to place applications according to a scheme if the
> > application
> > does not specify a starting position, but the application gets
> > first call
> > on that (at least according to what I see - I am not an expert on
> > this).
> > 
> > I am starting to wonder, though, if something in Gnome hasn't
> > changed (or
> > maybe a setting got clobbered during the upgrade), because another
> > application has started showing the same problem (LibreOffice Calc
> > is now
> > doing the same thing GnuCash does - it opens correctly sized, but
> > not
> > correctly positioned). So I am going to try to research that aspect
> > and see
> > if there is a setting in Gnome that may be overriding the
> > application's
> > requested startup positioning.
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 01:26 David Carlson
> > <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Wouldn't the position on the desktop be a desktop setting?  How
> > > do other
> > > program windows position themselves when opened?  In my test
> > > system of
> > > Lubuntu 22.04 GnuCash opened the first time in the center of the
> > > desktop
> > > and thereafter in the same place it was when I closed it, just as
> > > Libre
> > > Office , web browsers, games and other programs do.
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:46 PM Tracy <gnulist at vbot.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Gyle,
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for the response. The desktop icons and such work a
> > > > little
> > > > differently under Ubuntu than under Windows. But even so, if I
> > > > go
> > > > directly to the exectuable and launch the application from
> > > > there, I get
> > > > the same result.
> > > > 
> > > > And thank you for correcting my mistake there - it is indeed
> > > > Preferences, not Settings - and the heading immediately over
> > > > the Save
> > > > Window Size And Position is Window Geometry.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On 7/11/22 20:13, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> > > > > Tracy,
> > > > > I'm on 4.11 on Windows 11 so I may have different options. 
> > > > > Mine is
> > > > under Edit/Preferences/Windows/Window Geometry and has a check
> > > > box for
> > > > "save window size and position".  It works fine.  However, if
> > > > the icon
> > to
> > > > start Gnucash has the properties set for anything other than 
> > > > "Normal
> > > > Window", they override the setting in Gnucash.  If it is set to
> > > > "Normal
> > > > Window" then Gnucash works the way you would like.  So my
> > > > suggestion is
> > to
> > > > check how your Gnucash Icon is set.  Hope that helps.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thank You,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Gyle McCollam
> > > > > 
> > > > > Gyle McCollam
> > > > > 
> > > > > gmccollam at live.com<mailto:gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>          
> > > > > email
> > > > > 
> > > > > ________________________________
> > > > > From: gnucash-user
> > > > > <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org
> > > 
> > > > on behalf of Tracy <gnulist at vbot.org>
> > > > > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 7:10 PM
> > > > > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > > > > Subject: [GNC] Saving window position (and size)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ubuntu 22.04
> > > > > Gnucash 4.8
> > > > > 
> > > > > In the Edit > Settings dialog, under "Window" there is an
> > > > > option to
> > save
> > > > > the current window size and position. However, this does not
> > > > > appear to
> > > > > be working fully - when I position GnuCash on the screen,
> > > > > then close
> > it,
> > > > > then reopen it, it opens with the correct size, but not in
> > > > > the correct
> > > > > position - instead of where I left it, it opens with the
> > > > > upper left
> > > > > corner of the GnuCash window positioned at the upper left
> > > > > corner of
> > the
> > > > > desktop (instead of having the GnuCash window positioned 2/3
> > > > > of the
> > way
> > > > > to the right on the desktop, as it was when I closed it).
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have looked into the Wiki and found that the window
> > > > > position and
> > size
> > > > > is stored in:
> > > > > 
> > > > > $HOME/.local/share/gnucash/books/GnuTest.gnucash.gcm
> > > > > 
> > > > > Closing GnuCash and editing this file (specifically changing
> > > > > the
> > > > > WindowPosition property in the [Window 1] section) does not
> > > > > change the
> > > > > startup position of the GnuCash window.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there another place I should be looking for this, or am I
> > completely
> > > > > confused and there is another setting in the Settings window
> > > > > that I
> > > > > should be looking at, or....?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Note that this was an upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 and GnuCash
> > > > > 3.<I don't
> > > > > remember the point version> so it is possible that there are
> > > > > files or
> > > > > settings that were left behind by the upgrade process that
> > > > > are
> > > > > interfering (if so, and someone can point me to a resource
> > > > > for
> > cleaning
> > > > > up those settings, I would be happy to poke at it...)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks in advance for any information or assistance on this.
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