Thanks for the advice Geert! I have tried setting GNC_CONFIG_DIR and GNC_DATA_DIR as well but get the same result. I guess it is gSettings/dconf that mess things up.
As this is 3.8b+ version (packaged in Ubuntu 20.04), I may revise my backup strategy and move on to 4.4 and flatpak instead. Sometimes it's not worth all the work, you just have to give in :) Thanks anyway, I've learned a lot more about Gnucash and its' installation. One day I would like to try building and installing, and maybe contributing in some way. I guess it would be a good idea to set this up as a VM in VirtualBox or such, so you don't screw up your working environment (and accounting :) Regards, Dan ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, January 8th, 2021 at 12:22, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > Setting XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME will affect more than just gnucash. > It also affect many other parts of the gnome or kde desktop environments. > > If gnucash always starts as if it has never run before, it's most likely > gnucash can't communicate with gsettings. Part of the gnucash settings are > stored there. On linux dconf is used as backend for gsettings. It may well be > dconf doesn't work properly if you change the above environment variables in > a running linux session (be it gnome or kde or any other desktop environment). > > I would suggest setting GNC_CONFIG_DIR and GNC_DATA_DIR rather than the XDG_ > environnment variables. > > In your scenario these could be set to: > > export XDG_DATA_HOME=$TOP/.local/share/gnucash > > export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$TOP/.config/gnucash > > Note that for a full backup you'll have to find a way to export the settings > stored via gsettings as well. You could script something using "dconf dump" > and "dconf load" to export or import settings trees from dconf. > > Regards, > > Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
