[GNC] Possible to Set and Save an Individual Register's Default Style?

[Liz]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:17:20 +1000
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> 
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 at 07:09, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > What I haven't seen mentioned in all of this are the Accelerator
> > shortcut keys that for keyboard users can be set to easily change
> > the View in the current register and may alleviate the pain
> > somewhat :-)  Personally if I customise a register I tend to just
> > leave it open permanently anyway so none of this is an issue for me.
> >
> >  i.e. Basic view = ctrl + alt + b on Windows or option / command b
> > on macOS AutoSplit ledger = ctrl + alt + s  on Windows or option /
> > command s on macOS
> >        Transaction Journal view = ctrl + alt + x  on Windows or
> > option / command x on macOS
> >        Double line view = ctrl + alt + l  on Windows or option /
> > command l on macOS
> >
> > If you go to Gnucash >> Help >> About on Windows  (Gnucash >> About
> > Gnucash on macOS) you will be presented with an "About GnuCash"
> > popup window.  Clicking on the GNC_USERCONFIG_DIR link will take
> > you to the GnuCash user config folder which contains an
> > "accelerator-map" file.
> >
> > While GnuCash is closed, edit this file using a text editor and
> > remove the semi-colon (;) from the beginning of these lines to
> > UnComment them and change them as follows.  I suggest you copy this
> > file before changing it so you have a backup to go back to if the
> > need arises.
> >
> ; (gtk_accel_path
> "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleDoubleLineAction" "")
> ; (gtk_accel_path
> "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleRadioAction/0" "")
> ; (gtk_accel_path
> "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleRadioAction/1" "")
> ; (gtk_accel_path
> "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleRadioAction/2" "")
> 

> >
> > to for example this :
> >
> > (gtk_accel_path
> > "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleDoubleLineAction"
> > "<Primary><Alt>l")
> > (gtk_accel_path
> > "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleRadioAction/0"
> > "<Primary><Alt>b")
> > (gtk_accel_path
> > "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleRadioAction/1"
> > "<Primary><Alt>s")
> > (gtk_accel_path
> > "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleRadioAction/2"
> > "<Primary><Alt>x")
> >
> > On Windows <Primary> is the ctrl key and <Alt> is self explanatory
> > and on macOS these are equivalent to option + cmd + l, b, s or x on
> > my systems at least :-)
> >
> > Once you have these set and save the file and re-open GnuCash you
> > should see the Shortcut keys to the right of the view style radio
> > buttons as per the screenshot below.
> >
> > Cheers David H.
> >
> > [image: image.png]
> >

Mine didn't take effect, so I headed to the wiki
https://www.wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Keyboard_Shortcuts
ignored Firefox's complaints about the certificate being for
code.gnucash.org  and found this

	HAVE A CARE: some accelerator-map internal command names
	changed from V 4.9 to 5.1. If (some of) your accelerators fail
	rename the accelerator-map file (do NOT trash yet). GC will
	load a fresh default file on the next start. Copy the shortcuts
	from the old file to the corresponding actions in the new file.

Once I did that my shortcuts appeared in the menu system.
This is on Debian Linux.

Liz