This page is almost 3 years old:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/GSettingsMigration
But it does offer a list of potential apps to check that might still be using
gconf. I’m pretty sure Chromium has completed their migration as of early this
year.
Ubuntu stopped installing it as
Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 16:00:24 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
> On 2018-08-18 13:38, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > Op zaterdag 18 augustus 2018 16:34:14 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
> >> Last evening I was thinking of filing a bug report for my problem. In
> >> the process I found a previous bug report
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 15:02, Ken Heard wrote:
>
> On 2018-08-18 13:38, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > ...
> > The only thing André added yesterday was a message indicating that the (old)
> > GConf tool should be considered dead and burried. Which is fine because
> > gnucash has not been using it
On 2018-08-18 13:38, Geert Janssens wrote:
Op zaterdag 18 augustus 2018 16:34:14 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
Last evening I was thinking of filing a bug report for my problem. In
the process I found a previous bug report 555187 dealing with the same
one (1). This bug was originally filed on
Frank,
You’ve misunderstood the thread: It’s about a deficiency in the dependencies of
the Debian package manager, not anything to do with GnuCash’s build
requirements.
Regards,
John Ralls
> On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:13 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger
> wrote:
>
> From
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 16:38, Colin Law wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 16:19, Ken Heard wrote:
> >
> > The version of gnucash I have, 1:2.6.15-1, was installed from the Debian
> > Stretch repository. Just now I looked at the entry for this package on
> > apt-cache and discovered that dbus-X11
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 18:13, Frank H. Ellenberger
wrote:
>
> From https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/README.dependencies
> " at runtime, required
> -
> a gsettings backend to store the gnucash global preferences in
> This backend is platform dependent.
> -
>From https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/README.dependencies
" at runtime, required
-
a gsettings backend to store the gnucash global preferences in
This backend is platform dependent.
- linux:dconf
- windows: registry
- osx/quarz:plists
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 17:31, Frank H. Ellenberger
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> AFAIK dbus-X11 is no direct dependency of GnuCash:
> GnuCash requires GSettings,
> only on Linux that requires dconf
> and that again requires the dbus.
Well if you take out dbus-X11 then you can't save any settings.
I
Hi all,
AFAIK dbus-X11 is no direct dependency of GnuCash:
GnuCash requires GSettings,
only on Linux that requires dconf
and that again requires the dbus.
Regards
Frank
Am 22.08.2018 um 17:38 schrieb Colin Law:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 16:19, Ken Heard wrote:
>>
>> The version of gnucash I
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 16:19, Ken Heard wrote:
>
> The version of gnucash I have, 1:2.6.15-1, was installed from the Debian
> Stretch repository. Just now I looked at the entry for this package on
> apt-cache and discovered that dbus-X11 is recommended for
> gnucash-1:2.6.15-1; whereas it has to
On 2018-08-22 03:43, Colin Law wrote:
Can you remind me how you installed gnucash? I expect you have said
but this has been a rather long thread. If it was a pre-packaged
installer then I think that is a bug in the installer as it should
specify dbus-x11 as a dependency. It is not an issue
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 03:04, Ken Heard wrote:
> ...
> I now have a working gnucash.
Excellent.
> ...
> I still have however a few observations/questions about dconf, etc.,
> which I want to send to the three of you in due course after I complete
> my researches on the subject.
Can you remind
On 2018-08-21 11:47, Colin Law wrote:
I suspect that may means that dbus-x11 is not installed.
Indeed. On receipt of your email I immediately installed dbus-x11. It
added two more directories to my home directory. ./dbus and
./config/dconf. (Is ~./conf now obsolete?) I did not have to
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 at 16:31, Ken Heard wrote:
> ..
> Here is the full content of .xsession-errors after running dconf-editor
> in a terminal and finding the terminal the messages quoted below.
>
> Xsession: X session started for ken at Tue Aug 21 10:32:09 EDT 2018
> localuser:ken being added to
On 2018-08-21 04:24, Colin Law wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 23:31, Ken Heard wrote:
Just now I ran command "dconf update" which returned the following:
---
error: Error opening directory '/etc/dconf/db': No such file or directory
It seems there is something basically wrong
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 23:31, Ken Heard wrote:
>
> Just now I ran command "dconf update" which returned the following:
> ---
> error: Error opening directory '/etc/dconf/db': No such file or
> directory
It seems there is something basically wrong with your system, the
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 23:20, Ken Heard wrote:
> ...
> > ps -aux|grep dconf
> > show? I suspect it will show that dconf-service is not running.
>
> It returns the line
>
> "ken 5074 0.0 0.0 14004 964 pts/2S+ 17:45 0:00 grep dconf"
So dconf-service is not running.
> "sudo cat
Just now I ran command "dconf update" which returned the following:
---
error: Error opening directory '/etc/dconf/db': No such file or
directory
Usage:
dconf update
Update the system dconf databases
---
It this message relevant to my dconf problem?
On 2018-08-20 12:44, Colin Law wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 16:19, Ken Heard wrote:
I have discovered that I do not have a file ~/.config/dconf. Perhaps the
absence of such a fine has prevented my from changing any of my gnucash
preferences. So I suppose my next step is somehow to create
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 16:19, Ken Heard wrote:
>
> I have discovered that I do not have a file ~/.config/dconf. Perhaps the
> absence of such a fine has prevented my from changing any of my gnucash
> preferences. So I suppose my next step is somehow to create one, yes?
>
>
Well since the
On 2018-08-18 10:42, Colin Law wrote:
On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 15:19, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
I think Ken mentioned GnuCash 2.6.15 in Debian Stretch in the OP.
I missed that. Thanks.
Ken, dconf not working can be caused by corrupted dconf config files.
Ken,
You might also want to investigate this page, particularly the section on
locks. I doubt you’ll find one for GnuCash, but somehow that system might have
an overall lock on it.
https://developer.gnome.org/dconf/unstable/dconf-overview.html
Regards,
Adrien
> On Aug 18, 2018, at 9:42 AM,
Op zaterdag 18 augustus 2018 16:34:14 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
> Last evening I was thinking of filing a bug report for my problem. In
> the process I found a previous bug report 555187 dealing with the same
> one (1). This bug was originally filed on 2008-10-16, but the last
> comment on it by
On 2018-08-18 09:57, Colin Law wrote:
On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 14:52, Geert Janssens
wrote:
Op zaterdag 18 augustus 2018 15:47:06 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
On 2018-08-18 02:07, Colin Law wrote:
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 22:59 Ken Heard, wrote:
On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote:
The apply
On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 15:19, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> I think Ken mentioned GnuCash 2.6.15 in Debian Stretch in the OP.
>
I missed that. Thanks.
Ken, dconf not working can be caused by corrupted dconf config files. This
can happen if there is power fail
On 2018-08-17 03:27, Geert Janssens wrote:
Actually as of gnucash 2.6 the preferences are managed via GSettings. On linux
this means the settings are stored in dconf by default. We had a few cases
early on where gnucash was installed on systems that didn't have dconf
installed. In that case
I think Ken mentioned GnuCash 2.6.15 in Debian Stretch in the OP.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Aug 18, 2018, at 8:57 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 14:52, Geert Janssens
> wrote:
>
>> Op zaterdag 18 augustus 2018 15:47:06 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
>>> On 2018-08-18 02:07, Colin Law
On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 14:52, Geert Janssens
wrote:
> Op zaterdag 18 augustus 2018 15:47:06 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
> > On 2018-08-18 02:07, Colin Law wrote:
> > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 22:59 Ken Heard, wrote:
> > >> On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote:
> > >>> The apply button doesn't really
Op zaterdag 18 augustus 2018 15:47:06 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
> On 2018-08-18 02:07, Colin Law wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 22:59 Ken Heard, wrote:
> >> On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote:
> >>> The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it just
> >>> appears in the
On 2018-08-18 02:16, Geert Janssens wrote:
Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2018 16:52:32 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
I would expect that the default preferences and the changed preferences
would be in the same file, not in a different file. So the defaults
must be somewhere where gnucash can find them.
On 2018-08-18 02:17, Geert Janssens wrote:
Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2018 23:59:28 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote:
The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it just
appears in the bottom bar of the window.
Colin
I don't even see it there.
On 2018-08-18 02:07, Colin Law wrote:
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 22:59 Ken Heard, wrote:
On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote:
The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it just
appears in the bottom bar of the window.
Colin
I don't even see it there. The bottom bar has
Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2018 23:59:28 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
> On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote:
> > The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it just
> > appears in the bottom bar of the window.
> >
> > Colin
>
> I don't even see it there. The bottom bar has this text
Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2018 16:52:32 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
> I would expect that the default preferences and the changed preferences
> would be in the same file, not in a different file. So the defaults
> must be somewhere where gnucash can find them. Where would that
> 'somewhere' be, and
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 22:59 Ken Heard, wrote:
> On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote:
> >
> > The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it just
> > appears in the bottom bar of the window.
> >
> > Colin
>
> I don't even see it there. The bottom bar has this text "The change
On 2018-08-17 17:26, Colin Law wrote:
The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it just
appears in the bottom bar of the window.
Colin
I don't even see it there. The bottom bar has this text "The change
will be applied on such request or if you quit this view."
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 19:48, Ken Heard wrote:
> On 2018-08-17 13:18, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the feedback. My request to try with dconf-editor was not
> meant as
> > a workaround, but rather to determine if values can be changed at all.
> >
> >>From your explanation I still can't
On 2018-08-17 13:18, Geert Janssens wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. My request to try with dconf-editor was not meant as
a workaround, but rather to determine if values can be changed at all.
From your explanation I still can't infer this exactly, but I readily admit my
instructions were
Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2018 18:41:13 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
> On 2018-08-17 11:28, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
>
>
> > Please ignore ~/.gnucash for now. It's not related to the preferences you
> > are trying to tweak.
>
> ?
>
> > Did you play with dconf-editor ? And what where the results
On 2018-08-17 11:28, Geert Janssens wrote:
Please ignore ~/.gnucash for now. It's not related to the preferences you are
trying to tweak.
?
Did you play with dconf-editor ? And what where the results ?
After some research I opened dconf-editor and found
Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2018 16:52:32 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
> On 2018-08-17 03:27, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > Actually as of gnucash 2.6 the preferences are managed via GSettings. On
> > linux this means the settings are stored in dconf by default. We had a
> > few cases early on where gnucash was
On 2018-08-17 03:27, Geert Janssens wrote:
Actually as of gnucash 2.6 the preferences are managed via GSettings. On linux
this means the settings are stored in dconf by default. We had a few cases
early on where gnucash was installed on systems that didn't have dconf
installed. In that case
Actually as of gnucash 2.6 the preferences are managed via GSettings. On linux
this means the settings are stored in dconf by default. We had a few cases
early on where gnucash was installed on systems that didn't have dconf
installed. In that case GSettings will only store settings in-memory
Ken, always use reply-all or reply-to-list so that others can participate in
the conversation and offer assistance.
I can’t get to the specifics at the moment for the preference permissions
issue, but maybe someone else can in the interim.
Your preferences I think should be stored in
Ken,
Sorry, I saw this when you originally posted it (twice) but wasn’t able to
reply at the time and I see you haven’t heard from anyone yet.
Although seemingly unhelpful, the error message is telling you how to fix the
problem.
Apparently, after changing the separator to a backslash “\”
I have been using GnuCash since 2009. Twice every year I need to
transfer my account file from one desktop to another. I never had any
trouble opening GnuCash after each such transfer until now.
Early on in my use of GnuCash I changed the accounts separator from the
colon (:) to the back
I have been using GnuCash since 2009. Twice every year I need to
transfer my account file from one desktop to another. I never had any
trouble opening GnuCash after each such transfer until now.
Early on in my use of GnuCash I changed the accounts separator from the
colon (:) to the back
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