Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-06-08 Thread John Griessen
On 4/3/23 14:31, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I'd check the Wiki about obtaining a Tracefile. (and/or run GnuCash from the command line to watch output) Then attempt changing a preference and see if any messages appear in either that might indicate what is happening. Regards, Adrien I'm

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-05 Thread Geert Janssens
The contents of the tracefile would indeed be helpful to diagnose whether this is a gsettings migration related bug or something else. A few bugs in that area have been fixed, but perhaps there are more or we look at a regression. Regards, Geert Op maandag 3 april 2023 22:31:24 CEST schreef

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'd check the Wiki about obtaining a Tracefile. (and/or run GnuCash from the command line to watch output) Then attempt changing a preference and see if any messages appear in either that might indicate what is happening. Regards, Adrien On 4/3/23 3:14 PM, John Griessen wrote: On 4/3/23

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread Vincent Dawans
I meant to say you have to search within the dconf-editor. So install it first. Assuming Mint uses the same command as Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install dconf-editor The run dconf-editor and search for alternate in there to find the alternate-color-by-transaction setting. On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 1:21 

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread John Griessen
On 4/3/23 14:06, Vincent Dawans wrote: In my case, I installed dconf-editor (it wasn't installed by default) and then after running it, I did a search on "alternate". It returns the setting in 2 locations. Only the second one is correct for version 5.0, the first one was for older versions prior

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread John Griessen
On 4/3/23 13:44, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Are other preferences saved? I think there was a bug a while back about this being an issue in some cases on Linux. It had to do with Gsettings and file locations Nope. All check boxes are empty and cannot be checked and saved. The flatpak is at

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread Vincent Dawans
From the wiki https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations I get this information: Most of what is found under Edit->Preferences and a few extra ones are stored in [GSettings] . GSettings itself doesn't have a particular location to store this information in. Instead it relies on

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread John Griessen
On 4/3/23 13:44, John Griessen wrote: Thanks Vincent.  My appearance is just like your screenshot.  Except I can't save any check boxes on close. They are gone on open again. I compiled in a build dir to the side of the source dir. cd gnucash-5.0-build cmake -GNinja

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Are other preferences saved? I think there was a bug a while back about this being an issue in some cases on Linux. It had to do with Gsettings and file locations, but I don't remember the specifics unfortunately. Regards, Adrien On 4/3/23 1:45 PM, John Griessen wrote: I just had an easy

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread John Griessen
On 4/3/23 13:11, Vincent Dawans wrote: For me, there is a "Close" button on the dialog at the bottom right that saves the changes, same as in version 4.13. Thanks Vincent. My appearance is just like your screenshot. Except I can't save any check boxes on close. They are gone on open again.

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.0 register color settings don't save

2023-04-03 Thread Vincent Dawans
John, are you referring to the "double mode colors alternate with transactions" option under Edit-Preferences-Register? If so then it works fine on my version 5.0 compiled on Lubuntu 22.04. For me, there is a "Close" button on the dialog at the bottom right that saves the changes, same as in