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

[Vincent Dawans]

I meant to say you have to search within the dconf-editor.

So install it first. Assuming Mint uses the same command as Ubuntu: sudo
apt-get install dconf-editor

The run dconf-editor and search for alternate in there to find
the alternate-color-by-transaction setting.

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 1:21 PM John Griessen <john at industromatic.com> wrote:

> On 4/3/23 14:06, Vincent Dawans wrote:
> > 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
>
> I have these packages:
>
> ii  dconf-cli                     0.40.0-3     amd64        simple
> configuration storage system - utilities
> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend:amd64 0.40.0-3     amd64        simple
> configuration storage system - GSettings back-end
> ii  dconf-service                 0.40.0-3     amd64        simple
> configuration storage system - D-Bus service
> ii  libdconf1:amd64               0.40.0-3     amd64        simple
> configuration storage system - runtime library
>
> I did a search on "alternate"
> Not sure how to do that...
>
>
> --
> John
>
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