[GNC] Distorted transaction page

[David H]

Hi Joe,

Keep the conversation on the list as others that know more than I can also
jump in and assist then.

OK I understand now, you've managed to collapse the other columns into 1
minimal width column.  No need to re-install.  You can try left clicking on
the thick black line and carefully teasing it out to the right to uncover
the other columns one at a time.  If your mouse skills aren't up to it you
can either rename your <datafile name>.gnucash.gcm file to something else
and then start Gnucash - it should recreate the gnucash.gcm file with the
usual defaults when you restart gnucash - probably easiest.  Or you can
edit the .gcm file with a text editor and look for Register entries where
the column widths are zero and set them to greater than zero i.e. 20 or
30.  They look like the following :-

[Register 7175cf7f4c095fe37cd54271eb7bef36]
date_width=98
num_width=64
reconcile_width=25
balance_width=80
transfer_width=693
debit_width=80
credit_width=94

If you need to know where your gnucash.gcm file is located, click on help
about and then click on the GNC_USERDATA_DIR: link in the popup and then
open the books folder and it should be in there - at least it is for on
Ubuntu using flatpak :-)

Anyway hope this helps, cheers David H.


On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 18:20, Joseph Hesse <joe.hesse at actcx.com> wrote:

> David,
> Thank you for your reply.
> This does not seem to work.  I see the Date, Num, Description columns,
> then a thick black line, then Balance - that's it, no more columns.
> If I double click on Balance, nothing happens and nothing seem movable.
> Do you think reinstalling gnu cash might help?
> Thank you,
> Joe Hesse
>
>
> On 4/30/25 00:53, David H wrote:
>
> Sorry Joe not Jesse - we get there eventually :-)
>
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 15:51, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jesse,
>>
>> Double click the column header to automatically resize columns. Be aware
>> though that the Description column is a special beast and automatically
>> expands to fill all of the remaining space and sometimes a bit more.  I
>> usually work from right to left, double clicking each column header in
>> turn, if the right hand columns get pushed off the screen ignore that for
>> the moment.  Skip the Description column and do the Num and Date columns.
>> Then do the Description column last - if it works all good but I sometimes
>> find it takes up too much room and pushes the right hand columns off the
>> screen.  If that happens, click and hold the Right side border of the
>> description column, drag it left a few cm's or a couple of inches and let
>> go and it should resize as expected.
>>
>> Cheers David H.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 15:04, Joseph Hesse <joe.hesse at actcx.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am using Fedora 42 and the latest gnucash.  When I view transactions,
>>> the right hand part of the page if squished, some of the columns are so
>>> narrow I can't read them.  How can I fix this?
>>> Thank you,
>>> Joe
>>>
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