[GNC] Gnucash 5.13 crashes after aborting new database setup

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM James Ralston <ralston at pobox.com> wrote:

> I frequently work on multiple GnuCash
> databases at the same time, by launching GnuCash multiple times.
>

I have ten different GnuCash books in my launcher file (as right-click menu
items).

Here's how to create separate launcher entries for each book:

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Desktop_Shortcuts

The above suggests creating a shortcut for each file (separate .desktop
launcher files).

To make multiple GnuCash books launch from the same .desktop file (right
click the icon to see them), add an Actions= line with some entries
separated by semicolons, then include Action entries as shown below. Be
sure to include single or double quotation marks around your file path if
you have spaces. I also have an entry to edit the launcher file using kate
(text editor). Once you get the .desktop file working, you can pin the
entry to your launcher menu, and launch GnuCash while opening one or more
books at will. It's just a text file, but when it doesn't work, remember to
make the file executable. OH and I think you may have to restart GNOME to
read changes to the file, but KDE seems to read changes as soon as the file
is saved. I don't know about XFCE or any of the other desktop environments,
but I suspect many can read them.

The Desktop Entry will launch when you left click, and the Desktop Actions
are the right click menu items.

Contrived example below:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=0.9.4
Type=Application
Name=GnuCash
MimeType=application/x-gnucash;
Exec=flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash "/home/bob/Books/Mine All
Mine/bookybook.gnucash"
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Icon=/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/current/active/export/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/org.gnucash.GnuCash.png
StartupWMClass=Gnucash
Name[en_US]=GnuCash.desktop
Actions=Daily;Mom;SimonSays;spacer;edit;

[Desktop Action Daily]
Name=My Bookkeeping
Exec=flatpak run
--env=WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 org.gnucash.GnuCash
'/home/bob/Books/Mine All Mine/bookybook.gnucash'

[Desktop Action Mom]
Name=Yo Mama
Exec=gnucash /home/bob/Books/Allison/allisons.gnucash

[Desktop Action SimonSays]
Name=Whatever You Call It
Exec=whatever runs

[Desktop Action Spacer]
Name=__________________________
Exec=
Name=__________________________
Exec=

[Desktop Action edit]
Name=Edit Launcher
Exec=kate /home/bob/.local/share/applications/GnuCash.desktop


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