Re: [GNC] Reconcile Finish button

2022-05-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You can file an RFE (Request for Enhancement) on Bugzilla. See the Wiki for more on bug reporting. Regards, Adrien On 5/10/22 9:41 PM, Fred Tydeman wrote: It would be nice if in the Reconcile window, when the Difference is zero, the Finish button would turn green.

Re: [GNC] Startup issue - two windows

2022-05-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The issue with not being able to close the tip of the day window is the Scheduled Transactions window has stolen focus. First click on the Tip of the Day window to raise it to the 'top of the window stack' and then close it. Then use whatever means of your OS to reveal windows hidden beneath

Re: [GNC] default local currency (Liz)

2022-05-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If it is greyed out, something is definitely wrong. I'm going with a read-only preference file as mentioned by David H. But that should imply other preferences also being greyed out. If not, more digging is required... Permissions issue on Win10 perhaps? (Not sure why that would affect only

[GNC] Startup issue - two windows

2022-05-10 Thread Fred Tydeman
I have Tip of the Day enabled. I have Scheduled transactions enabled. Sometimes, when I start gnucash, the Tip of the day popup window shows, then after the file is fully loaded, something about Scheduled transactions window shows (but is hidden by the Tip of the day). Clicking on the Close button

[GNC] Reconcile Finish button

2022-05-10 Thread Fred Tydeman
It would be nice if in the Reconcile window, when the Difference is zero, the Finish button would turn green. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] default local currency (Liz)

2022-05-10 Thread David Long
Hi David, I keep my GnuCash files on a folder on my hard disk which synchronizes via Dropbox with the hard disk on my laptop. I used this file when after I had installed on my laptop. I just changed my default location in Windows 10, but the default local currency in GnuCash is still

Re: [GNC] Double line mode

2022-05-10 Thread David Carlson
Yep, but if you haven't opened a particular account yet, then it will open the first time according to that default setting you found. Also, it can be changed on the fly when using the account. I think that is under the view menu item. I often change the view on the fly depending on what I

[GNC] Double line mode

2022-05-10 Thread Fred Tydeman
I wanted to see what Double line mode looked like, so I enabled it via: Edit Preferences Register Defaults Other Defaults Double line mode I gave it a try in a few accounts; but did not like it. I shut down Gnucash. I restarted Gnucash. I went back to the above Register

Re: [GNC] default local currency (Liz)

2022-05-10 Thread David H
David, So you're not able to click "Choose" and then use the dropdown arrow on the right to select MYR ? How did you transfer your file over to the laptop - is the file or the volume it's on Read only ? I did try setting my file to Read only and it didn't make any difference to the behaviour of

[GNC] default local currency (Liz)

2022-05-10 Thread David Long
Thanks for replies below about changing default currency, and my follow up. Any further advice? I tried before: Preferences >> Accounts >> Default Currency in Gnucash 4.10 ??? But its greyed out so cannot change. My version is 4.10 Adrien noted: 1. Locale (set by your OS preferences)

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread Liz Dodd
On Tue, 10 May 2022 14:06:02 -0600 John Griessen wrote: > That sounds great for two people in an office. How would you get > the benefit of doing bookkeeping on a laptop and then at a desktop > machine alternating back and forth? > > I get a flexibility benefit using unison to sync files. I

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread davidcousens49
John, I achieve this by keeping my GnuCash files in a Dropbox account accessible from my desktop at home, my laptop while travelling and my wife's laptop. I backup to an NAS (full once a month with daily incrementals) which is in turn backed up to an offsite online cloud storage and a local

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash? between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread John Griessen
On 5/10/22 14:16, John Griessen wrote: Ah so.  Then probably the OP *can* avoid 2 installs of gnucash.  It would maybe look like this to launch gnucash from a shared dir on a LAN: $ /shared/gnucash4.10/gnucash   /shared/books1/books1.gnucash The work of putting the executable in a nonstandard

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash? between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread John Griessen
On 5/10/22 11:00, Robert Heller wrote: I don't believe the OP is running gnucash remotely, just storing the gnucash executable on a shared disk. $ gnucash /shared/books1/books1.gnucash Ah so. Then probably the OP *can* avoid 2 installs of gnucash. It would maybe look like this to launch

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread John Griessen
On 5/10/22 11:46, Chris Mitchell wrote: Keeping the data files on shared network storage ("Windows network share", Samba, NFS, sshfs, etc) and accessing them directly has the advantage of real-time file locking: I much prefer this setup, because it effectively prevents the "accidentally edit

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread Chris Mitchell
Keeping the data files on shared network storage ("Windows network share", Samba, NFS, sshfs, etc) and accessing them directly has the advantage of real-time file locking: If a running instance of Gnucash has the data file open, then when you try to open it from another Gnucash instance on another

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/10/2022 11:50 AM, John Griessen wrote: On 5/9/22 11:07, Derek Atkins wrote: The main gotcha is that only one person can have the data file open at a time.  This means you will need to coordinate "who is running GnuCash" at any particular moment. I use gnucash on two linux machines

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash? between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 10 May 2022 10:09:55 -0600 John Griessen wrote: > > On 5/9/22 10:57, Westshire Realty wrote: > > Prefer to avoid maintaining two separate apps intalled on devices and > > sharing just the data file. > > I'm not aware that gnucash can run remotely without you making a way via >

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread John Griessen
On 5/9/22 10:57, Westshire Realty wrote: Prefer to avoid maintaining two separate apps intalled on devices and sharing just the data file. I'm not aware that gnucash can run remotely without you making a way via programs like vnc or xwindows, which sounds like extra work on a mac. It's easy

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-10 Thread John Griessen
On 5/9/22 11:07, Derek Atkins wrote: The main gotcha is that only one person can have the data file open at a time. This means you will need to coordinate "who is running GnuCash" at any particular moment. I use gnucash on two linux machines with a sync program called unison keeping the data

Re: [GNC] Errors after restarting GnuCash 4.10 from terminal or bash script

2022-05-10 Thread john
> On May 9, 2022, at 9:50 PM, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote: > > I have just setup getting finance quotes for Gnucash for the first time for GC > 4.10 on Linux Mint 20.3. I was setting up a shell script to shutdown GnuCash, > update the finance quotes and restart GnuCash after the quotes had

Re: [GNC] List of securities with Get Online Quotes

2022-05-10 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Yeah. I don't know the parameters of Alphavantage's limits; there are any of a number of possibilities that might explain how they might believe you deserve to get limited. I've been blocked by some providers because I use a VPN, and the VPN IP address gets throttled. On May 9, 2022 11:39:51

Re: [GNC] default local currency

2022-05-10 Thread Liz
On Tue, 10 May 2022 12:17:22 +0800 "David Long" wrote: > Hi, > > > > Actually, I tried a re-install, thinking I had missed a trick in the > installation process, but exactly the same. > > > > Regards > > > > David David, could you advise your OS, because this may offer a different

Re: [GNC] Show Account Name Instead of Full Account Name in Transfer Column?

2022-05-10 Thread viking2ev
Oh, never mind. I found the option in Preferences >> Register Defaults >> Only display leaf account names. -Original Message- From: gnucash-user [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+viking2ev=san.rr@gnucash.org] On Behalf Of viking...@san.rr.com Sent: 10 May, 2022 01:44 To:

[GNC] Show Account Name Instead of Full Account Name in Transfer Column?

2022-05-10 Thread viking2ev
How do I show the (short) "Account Name" instead of the much longer "Full Account Name" in the Transfer Column in the Account Register? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: