[GNC] Where is config-user.scm supposed to be under Linux

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 3 Jul 2023 16:04:23 -0400 Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> On 7/3/23 15:28, David H wrote:
> > Sure is, which is why I phrased my reply as more of a question :-)  Sorry I
> > should have suggested doing "Help >> About" - the popup shows a lot of
> > config file locations and might be a better guide....
> > 
> > Cheers David H.
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 at 21:26, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> At Mon, 3 Jul 2023 11:28:18 +1000 David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Robert,
> >>>
> >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations doesn't help ?
> >>
> >> Nope.  At least it doesn't help as far as I can tell.  It is a bit
> >> confusing
> >> though.  It talks about $HOME/.gnucash and $HOME/.local/share/gnucash and
> >> I am
> >> not totally sure which is correct for V4.14.  I have determined that
> >> $HOME/.local/share/gnucash/ is used for stylesheets-2.0, since that file
> >> in
> >> that location gets updated after I fire up gnucash and exit.  It just
> >> doesn't
> >> appear the config-user.scm ever gets loaded.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers David H.
> >>>
> 
> Well, I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.8 (Ootpa) and
> GnuCash
> Version: 4.2
> Build ID: 4.2+(2020-09-26)
> Finance::Quote: -
> 
> It seems config-user.scm is nowhere on my machine. Yet Gnucash seems to 
> work just fine.

config-user.scm is only needed if you are loading user-supplied Scheme.

It belongs in $HOME/.config/gnucash (appearently).  The Wiki is vauge and 
confusing.  Doing a gnucash --paths helped.

> 
> $ locate config-user.scm
> $
> 
> 
> 
> 

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