On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 02:42:59PM -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:00 PM Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > I'm running gnucash 4.4 on Linux, > > ... > > > Also is it possible to have some sort of configuration file to set > > command line options? I'd like to default to --nofile whenever I run > > gnucash as I just about never want the same accounts file twice. > > > > I suggest you can create a custom shortcut for your desktop manager to open > GnuCash using whatever options you want, including creating a separate menu > action to open each of your gnucash files. > Well, I'll create a small bash wrapper to run from the command line, I'm very command line oriented in my use and rarely use the menus or panel icons.
> In Ubuntu 21.04 running GNOME I have a right-click menu for the launcher > that opens each of my nine GnuCash book files. In versions of Ubuntu > running GNOME, I find that the edited GnuCash.desktop file goes into the > ~/.local/share/applications/ directory and must be flagged "executable" to > be visible to the launcher. I haven't tried it in other desktop > environments. > Yes, I'd probably need something like that, though the equivalent in my case would be 'cd <somewhere with gnucash data>' and then run my script to pick up the data file in that directory. I already have a script that defaults to running my 2021 church accounts unless you give it a parameter to run something else. The trouble is that I'm now thinking of using gnucash for something quite separate. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ 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.
