Re: [GNC] Build error ver 3.7 on mint 19.2

2019-10-20 Thread David Cousens
Geert Also agree it needs to be separate from the Building on Linux. Having a new wiki page on packaging GnuCash with breakout pages for notes and problems associated with the various packaging methodologies like Snap, Flatpak, Debian etc. dealing with issues like setting up permissions and

Re: [GNC] AqBanking help for Citi CC (cont'd again)

2019-10-20 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 20, 2019, at 7:46 PM, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > > As with messages in January and August, I too would like AqBanking to work > with a Citi credit card account. I've followed the recommend settings > described here: > >

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.7 freezes on any report after update from 2.6

2019-10-20 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 20, 2019, at 12:32 PM, andrewTE wrote: > > Okay thanks. Reading on it, seems like it's caused by library and compiler > compatibility issues with no current way forward. Worse yet it may be caused > by threading issues. And it's intermittent to reproduce for some people to > boot.

Re: [GNC] Build error ver 3.7 on mint 19.2

2019-10-20 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 2:16 PM Geert Janssens wrote: > Op vrijdag 18 oktober 2019 23:26:51 CEST schreef David Cousens: > > Tommy, > > > > Not sure what the differences between Linux Mint 19.2 (Ubuntu 18.04 > based) > > and Ubuntu 18.04 18.10 and 19.10 are that cause problems building > directly

Re: [GNC] How to create Expense Report to Business from Personal Acct?

2019-10-20 Thread David Cousens
In the personal accounts if you have expended money on items for the business it creates a Liability for the business and in your personal accounts by expending money from your bank you are creating an asset. You would record a purchase as follows Personal Asset:PersonalBankAccount Cr

[GNC] AqBanking help for Citi CC (cont'd again)

2019-10-20 Thread Jonathan Stickel
As with messages in January and August, I too would like AqBanking to work with a Citi credit card account. I've followed the recommend settings described here: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-October/080548.html but still no luck. I did find a feature when logged in to

[GNC] How to create Expense Report to Business from Personal Acct?

2019-10-20 Thread Fran_3 via gnucash-user
Given two gnuCash files.. Personal.gnuCash andBusiness.gnuCash Questions: 1 - When I buy items for the business and pay for them using personal funds... How do I create an "Expense Report" in Personal.gnuCash so that I can get reimbursed? I considered setting up the business as a customer in

Re: [GNC] Backporting Gnucash 3.7 to Ubuntu "Bionic" (or Mint, etc.)

2019-10-20 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 2:16 PM Geert Janssens wrote: > Op zaterdag 19 oktober 2019 22:37:40 CEST schreef Tommy Trussell: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 5:14 PM Jon Schewe wrote: > > > Note that you can also use flatpak to get it. > > > > > > sudo apt install flatpak > > > flatpak install flathub

Re: [GNC] How should I enter values on a budget in gnucash ?

2019-10-20 Thread Jim Passmore
Patiently using 3.4 on Ubuntu 19.04, so I assume this preference is the one on the Accounts tab. Yes, credit accounts are reversed. If someone is looking at the budget editor, a *big* improvement in my opinion would be the ability to copy/paste a whole column from one period to another. Also

Re: [GNC] register column sizes

2019-10-20 Thread Greg Feneis
Typically, double click on the header of each column except the description column first, then do the description column. Kind regards, Greg Feneis (Pixel 3) On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 14:19 David Carlson wrote: > James, > > I would suggest closing that particular account register tab, then >

Re: [GNC] Can not insert text on transaction after import QIF

2019-10-20 Thread dmeece
Upon further review: After exploring the forum in more depth, extending back about 2 years, I found a number of the established developers of gnucash voicing their doubts as to the viability of pushing gnucash passed what is in the ubuntu repository. In my case since I have had a muitple

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.7 freezes on any report after update from 2.6

2019-10-20 Thread andrewTE
Okay thanks. Reading on it, seems like it's caused by library and compiler compatibility issues with no current way forward. Worse yet it may be caused by threading issues. And it's intermittent to reproduce for some people to boot. Being a SW developer myself, this does not look promising for a

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.7 freezes on any report after update from 2.6

2019-10-20 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 20, 2019, at 12:08 PM, andrewTE wrote: > > I am able to run Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow. > OK, that plus the tracefile output indicating that javascript has left the building means that it's bug 797293. Regards, John Ralls

Re: [GNC] Backporting Gnucash 3.7 to Ubuntu "Bionic" (or Mint, etc.)

2019-10-20 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zaterdag 19 oktober 2019 22:37:40 CEST schreef Tommy Trussell: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 5:14 PM Jon Schewe wrote: > > Note that you can also use flatpak to get it. > > > > sudo apt install flatpak > > flatpak install flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash > > Thank you for the reminder! > > The

Re: [GNC] Build error ver 3.7 on mint 19.2

2019-10-20 Thread Geert Janssens
Op vrijdag 18 oktober 2019 23:26:51 CEST schreef David Cousens: > Tommy, > > Not sure what the differences between Linux Mint 19.2 (Ubuntu 18.04 based) > and Ubuntu 18.04 18.10 and 19.10 are that cause problems building directly > from the sources but as your procedure seems considerably

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.7 freezes on any report after update from 2.6

2019-10-20 Thread andrewTE
I am able to run Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow. -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.7 freezes on any report after update from 2.6

2019-10-20 Thread andrewTE
I've run it with debug. No messages showing on the console, and in the tracefile I get something like this: * 11:57:01 INFO [gnc_plugin_page_report_setup] report-id: 11 * 11:57:01 INFO [gnc_plugin_page_report_setup] set needs save * 11:57:02 INFO [gnc_html_webkit_init] webkit_settings: Set

Re: [GNC] Tracefile on Windows (was Gnucash 3.7 freezes on any report after update from 2.6)

2019-10-20 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 20, 2019, at 11:38 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > See the wiki about obtaining a tracefile on Windows. Make sure to check the > tracefile before re-starting GnuCash after a freeze. (it gets overwritten on > subsequent runs) Not on Windows. On Windows each tracefile has a

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.7 freezes on any report after update from 2.6

2019-10-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Andrew, See the wiki about obtaining a tracefile on Windows. Make sure to check the tracefile before re-starting GnuCash after a freeze. (it gets overwritten on subsequent runs) Also, check the wiki for running GnuCash from the command line. (cmd.exe) Some errors or warnings are sent back to

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.7 freezes on any report after update from 2.6

2019-10-20 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 20, 2019, at 10:51 AM, andrewTE wrote: > > I have just upgraded my 2.6 installation to 3.7 (Windows 10) and the gnucash > would freeze immediately if I click on any report (there were 2 opened tabs > by default as carried over from how I had it on 2.6). Thinking this was > caused by

[GNC] Gnucash 3.7 freezes on any report after update from 2.6

2019-10-20 Thread andrewTE
I have just upgraded my 2.6 installation to 3.7 (Windows 10) and the gnucash would freeze immediately if I click on any report (there were 2 opened tabs by default as carried over from how I had it on 2.6). Thinking this was caused by incompatible reports, I managed to close them with "X" while

[GNC] register column sizes

2019-10-20 Thread James Gill via gnucash-user
I foolishly attempted to adjust the column widths on the right size. They kept getting smaller and smaller until they were gone. Now I have R, Deposit and Balance. How do I get those other columns back? Are there default sizes to return to? Perhaps a default register layout? Any help

Re: [GNC] How should I enter values on a budget in gnucash ?

2019-10-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That is what I use. I prefer that negative signs only show up to reflect contra balances, which is either good or bad per account as intended. Regards, Adrien > On Oct 20, 2019 w43d293, at 9:37 AM, Christopher Lam > wrote: > > > > So the question to everyone using budgets is -- is it safe

Re: [GNC] How to set a customer "opening balance" for the Customer Report

2019-10-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
How does one enter opening balances, *per customer* or *per vendor*? So far that we’ve figured out, the only method is to enter a payment assigned to Equity:Opening Balances. While this does accomplish the intended result, it is neither obvious or easily discoverable when first moving to

Re: [GNC] How to set a customer "opening balance" for the Customer Report

2019-10-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Derek, I could be mistaken, but I think the OP was referencing that they were moving *to* GnuCash from another system where they were already tracking the historical invoices. GnuCash doesn’t have an official way to enter info for existing business transactions like it does simple opening

Re: [GNC] How should I enter values on a budget in gnucash ?

2019-10-20 Thread Christopher Lam
Hi Edward and others. For a few weeks I've been reviewing the budget module. It's true that the budget *editor* prematurely reverses the signs of amounts, handling period amounts (i.e. changes in amounts in a period) assuming sign-reversals is set as credit-accounts. The advantage is positive

Re: [GNC] Dot Directories in Win10

2019-10-20 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 19, 2019, at 11:32 PM, David T. via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Hello, > > I am using Gnucash 3.5 on Windows 10 (installed on a new Windows machine June > 2019), and I notice a couple of dot directories placed in my user folder > (C:\Users\sunfish): .cache and .dbus-keyrings > >

Re: [GNC] How to set a customer "opening balance" for the Customer Report

2019-10-20 Thread Derek Atkins
Stan Brown writes: > On 2019-10-16 12:10, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> Also, the Opening Balance entry *is* editable, even in 2.6.x. I’ve >> done it myself. It is just a regular transaction. > > I believe you, but I must say that that was very far from obvious to > this new user. I couldn't

Re: [GNC] Build error ver 3.7 on mint 19.2

2019-10-20 Thread NOSTOP
Using the Gnucash wiki : https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Google_Test#Installing_Google_Test_for_Building_Gnucash instead of : apt install googletest solved the issue of GTEST and GMOCK not found. Also

[GNC] Dot Directories in Win10

2019-10-20 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Hello, I am using Gnucash 3.5 on Windows 10 (installed on a new Windows machine June 2019), and I notice a couple of dot directories placed in my user folder (C:\Users\sunfish): .cache and .dbus-keyrings The cache folder has a fontconfig folder with a couple of subfolders in it; the dbus