[GNC] Tab View

[Gyle McCollam]

Tom & David,
Well that was a senior moment!  I leave a standard set of tabs open and of course they would preserve the setting if not closed.  My bad, sorry.


Thank You,

Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

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From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2026 5:57 PM
To: Tom Route36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com>
Cc: Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com>; Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Tab View

Gyle,

Tom is right.  The key is that the default view preferences are only applied when the register is opened.   If you leave a register (or report) open when you close GnuCash, that window re-opens exactly as it was, except the cursor focus lands at the end.



David Carlson

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 3:23 PM Tom Route36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com<mailto:tom.route36 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Gyle,

I just tried duplicating what you described here; but that's not what's
happening for me.  I changed a view on one of my open tabs to
Transaction Journal. and then after that I changed Register Defaults ->
Default Style to Auto-Split Ledger.  And that updated Default Style
applies to everything.  The only thing I had to do was to close the open
tab and then reopen it.  When that tab reopened the View was set to
Auto-Split Ledger.  Are you closing and then reopening the tab that you
previously set to Transaction Journal?

Tom


On 1/15/2026 1:46 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> I've previously changed the view on my open tabs to "Transaction Journal", then later I decided to change my preferences to "Register Defaults/Default Style/Auto-split Ledger".  However, tabs that have been changed, such as those I changed to "Transaction Journal", do not change.  I have manually changed them to "Auto-split Ledger", but if I decided to go back to "Basic Ledger", I would have to change these manually again.  Is there a way to tell Gnucash that I want all tabs to go to the default view?  It would be great if on the individual tab view there was also an option for the "Default" in addition to the "Basic Ledger", "Auto-split  Ledger", and "Transaction Journal".
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> Thank You,
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> Gyle McCollam
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> Gyle McCollam
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