[GNC] Multiple accounts

[Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)]

Thanks very much, Sherman! That answers my question.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2024-09-21 15:25, Sherman Yoder wrote:
>    Instead of closing the individual windows by clicking on the red X up
>    in the right corner, click on File>Quit, if you are using Windows. That
>    will preserve the customizations you have made to the windows, and will
>    reopen them when you run GnuCash again.
> 
>    Sherman
> 
>    On 9/21/2024 5:56 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> 
> Thanks, John, but I don't think I asked my question clearly. It concerns
> how to close both windows when I've finished working, without losing the
> customizations I've already done on the Accounts list. (By
> "customizations", I mean expanding most (not all) branches of the tree
> to show subaccounts right down to the bottom level, and selecting
> additional columns, and setting column widths.)
> 
> I'm in Windows.
> 
> 1. While viewing the list of accounts, I click Windows » New Window with
> Page. Now I have a separate window with the list of accounts, but there
> is no longer an Accounts tab in the original window.
> 
> 2a. If I now close the original window and then close the child window
> of just the Accounts list, when I reopen GC I have only the Accounts
> tab. The other tabs, with column widths and filters, are gone.
> 
> 2b. In the opposite order, closing first the new window containing the
> Accounts list and then the original window, when I reopen GC the other
> tabs are as they were before but there is no Accounts list. Clicking
> View » New Accounts Page. gives me a page with just Imbalance, Orphan,
> and the five top-level accounts; my customizations are all gone.
> 
> As I mentioned earlier: I can recover from (2a) or (2b) by copying a
> backup of my .gcm file to %APPDATA%\GnuCash\books before reopening GC.
> 
> My question is, after getting the Accounts page into a separate window,
> is there any way to close GC without losing either the customizations of
> the Accounts page or the geometry and filters of all the other tabs --
> other than manually reverting to a saved .gcm file?
> 
> If the answer is "No, that's the only way", it's not the end of the
> world. I'm just trying to increase my knowledge of GC's window management.
> 
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> [1]https://BrownMath.com
> 
> On 2024-09-21 13:53, John Ralls wrote:
> 
> Two ways that work on Windows:
>   Move the new one out of the way.
>   Click and hold the GnuCash icon in the taskbar so it lets you pick which windo
> w to switch to
> 
> On Linux you can tap the Alt key to unstack all of the open windows for all appl
> ications then click the one you want to use.
> 
> On MacOS you tap the F3 key to do the same. You can cycle through the current ap
> p’s windows with cmd-`.
> 
> On all platforms you can use the Windows menu to select the window you want focu
> ssed.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> [2]gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
> [3]https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> 
> References
> 
>    1. https://BrownMath.com/
>    2. mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>    3. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.