[GNC] How do I print a transaction register

Sat Mar 14 15:05:14 EDT 2026

I have been playing with this for a few days now and I think I have it 
figured out.  What started out as a "How do I print a transaction 
register" turned into me working in the background messing up my own 
installation.  Turns out Software Manager in Linux Mint has two versions 
of gnucash available.  I managed to get both of them installed at some 
point without realizing it.  I finally managed to get rid of the old 
version somehow and I am using v5.14 (flatpack).  I also can print stuff.

So, with that, we can consider this thread closed.  I am grateful to all 
of you who hung out with this old fart until the end.  Have a happy St. 
Pat's Day!

JC

On 3/12/26 3:54 PM, Mark Bourne wrote:
> From earlier messages, it sounded like Jerry had GnuCash 2.14 
> installed via Flatpack.  His latest message below indicates that he 
> reinstalled using APT.  I suspect he now actually has both GnuCash 
> 2.14 installed via Flatpack and 5.5 installed, since APT apparently 
> reported that GnuCash wasn't installed and I don't think he mentioned 
> uninstalling the Flatpack version.
>
> GnuCash 5.5 is the version in the Ubuntu 24.04 APT repositories, on 
> which Linux Mint 22 is based and I think Jerry previously mentioned 
> that's his OS.  Yes, that GnuCash version is quite old. Personally I 
> switched to using the GnuCash PPA, which currently provides 5.14, due 
> to a bug with the "since last run" dialog in 5.5 that's fixed in newer 
> versions of GnuCash.
>
> Mark.
>
>
> Maf. King wrote:
>> New releases of GC are announced on here. 5.14 was mid-december.  I'd 
>> imagine
>> that 5.15 is not far away, but I don't know for sure.
>>
>> V5.5 is about 2 years old now (released feb 2024, i think) but if it 
>> works for
>> you, then Great!!!
>>
>> I thought you had V5.14-flatpack installed originally. (Indeed, that 
>> would
>> seem the case if APT said that GC was not installed when you knew it 
>> was....
>> the Mint package was not installed originally, but the flatpack 
>> system is
>> outside the Mint software manager and way more up to date)
>>
>> HTH,
>> Maf.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 12 March 2026 16:58:25 GMT Jerry Criswell (JC) wrote:
>>> Hello Everyone.
>>>
>>> I believe I have fixed the problem of not being able to print a
>>> transaction report.
>>>
>>> While I was messing around with the environment variable I trashed the
>>> menu item for GC.  The desktop icon still worked.  I thought about it
>>> for a couple days and I was pretty sure if I re-installed it might fix
>>> the problem.  I opened a terminal and did sudo apt remove gnucash.  It
>>> claimed gnucash was not installed.  Since I had already used GC many
>>> times I knew it was time to reinstall.  I did the re-install and GC
>>> started right up, found my file and everything was good.  Out of
>>> curiosity I tried a transaction report AND IT WORKED!!  I checked the
>>> version and I have installed v5.5.  I think I had 5.4 before. Has there
>>> been an upgrade since Jan 1?  How do we get notified when there is an
>>> upgrade?
>>>
>>> JC
>>>
>>> On 3/12/26 4:20 AM, G McAlister wrote:
>>>> On 11/03/2026 16:16, Jerry Criswell (JC) wrote:
>>>>> I appreciate your suggestion, but I'm afraid, based on the docs, that
>>>>> flatseal is over my head.
>>>>>
>>>>> JC
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/11/26 10:12 AM, Mark Penner wrote:
>>>>>> Mar 10, 2026 13:59:54 Jerry Criswell (JC) <jcriswell58 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> Using the flatpak version worked.  I am so happy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's been close to forever since I've set an environmental
>>>>>>> variable.  Where and how?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I believe you can install Flatseal and use it to set the environment
>>>>>> variable for the GnuCash flatpak. Docs:
>>>>>> https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal/blob/master/DOCUMENTATION.md#environm 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ent
>>>>>>
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>>>> Jerry,
>>>>
>>>> If you want to stay with flatpak, then here is how to set the
>>>> environment variable using the command line:
>>>>
>>>> flatpak override --env=WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1
>>>> org.gnucash.GnuCash
>>>>
>>>> To view what overrides you have set:
>>>>
>>>> flatpak override --show org.gnucash.GnuCash
>>>>
>>>> To remove an override:
>>>>
>>>> flatpak override --unset-env=WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE
>>>>
>>>> If you use flatpak per user as opposed to system, then add --user to
>>>> these commands after the override, so for example:
>>>>
>>>> flatpak override --user --show org.gnucash.GnuCash.
>>>>
>>>> Graham.
>>>>
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