[GNC] no drop-down accounts list in ledger Transfer column.

[v.gcs at scottsonline.org.uk]

Hi all. A "cannot happen" problem.

My desktop box runs gnucash v4.8 on linux mint.

I create a new accounts file, add 3 accounts aaa, bbb, ccc. I open bbb 
and to transfer (say) £100 from aaa to bbb. I click in the Transfer 
column, and get a highlighted empty box with a down arrow at right. I 
click on the down arrow, and see just one suggested account, aaa. No 
sign of ccc.

However, if I then type in 'ccc' and Enter to confirm the entry, then on 
clicking again in the Transfer column, only ccc is offered.

The weird thing is that (fortunately!) it works perfectly on my 
long-standing household accounts file - clicking on the Transfer column 
gives a long list of accounts as expected.

But it fails on a second smaller accounts file.


However, with gnucash 3.8 on an older mint, all works perfectly - both 
existing files and a new file (as above) offer a full set of accounts in 
the Transfer drop-down.


Fortunately, ^T offers a workaround, albeit cumbersome.

Any clue as to what's going on?

An unresolved note at 
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-October/097936.html 
about what seems to be the same problem suggests it's to do with MATE as 
that poster says it works under KDE. However, I get the same issue under 
KDE.


Thanks.


-- 
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England