[GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

[Vincent Dawans]

>From the wiki https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations I get
this information:

Most of what is found under Edit->Preferences and a few extra ones are
stored in  [GSettings] . GSettings itself doesn't have a particular
location to store this information in. Instead it relies on "backends" to
do this on its behalf. Which backend is used depends on the platform:
Linux - pristine: dconf - there's no file location associated with this,
data can be viewed or edited with dconf-editor. For advanced options see dconf
help.
So it looks like you have to look why dconf isn't saving and returning the
correct settings?
In my case, I installed dconf-editor (it wasn't installed by default) and
then after running it, I did a search on "alternate". It returns the
setting in 2 locations. Only the second one is correct for version 5.0, the
first one was for older versions prior to 4.? -- you can see the path is
different. So check on your end as well what dconf is storing.
org.gnucash.general.register alternate-color-by-transaction false
org.gnucash.GnuCash.general.register alternate-color-by-transaction true

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 12:46 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Are other preferences saved?
>
> I think there was a bug a while back about this being an issue in some
> cases on Linux. It had to do with Gsettings and file locations, but I
> don't remember the specifics unfortunately.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 4/3/23 1:45 PM, John Griessen wrote:
> > I just had an easy time compiling on linux mint 21.1 and alternating
> > colors in the register is a preference I like.  I tried changing it and
> > don't see a save button and when the edit-->preferences-->register
> > dialog box is closed, the colors don't appear and when
> > edit-->preferences-->register dialog box is opened again, the settings
> > are not checked.
> >
> > Ideas on working around this?  Is it the same with your compile?
> >
>
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