[GNC] Distorted transaction page

[David Carlson]

Somehow I missed this thread when it was fresh.

A foolproof way to solve this issue is to find your
.local/share/gnucash/books/[datafile].gcm configuration file, make a
backup, then open it with a text editor and search for the string "width="
.  For any account register that has a named width suspiciously low, either
delete the entire register definition or increase the width value to a
minimum of 10 (pixels).
The next time that you open that data file you will either find that you
need to open a new register window for that account or the previously
obscured columns will now be too wide and there will probably be a huge
horizontal scrollbar, which will be relatively easy to recover from.



On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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David Carlson