Tracy, I would not like a desktop that did not remember where a window was located on the desktop/display combination when last used. Any other users seeing similar issues?
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:32 AM Tracy <gnul...@vbot.org> wrote: > Hi David, > > Everything I can find says that Gnome (the desktop environment set up by > default in Ubuntu 22.04 - which was also the desktop environment used in > 20.04, which worked as expected) does not save window placement > information. Instead, it is the responsibility of the application. Gnome > will attempt to place applications according to a scheme if the application > does not specify a starting position, but the application gets first call > on that (at least according to what I see - I am not an expert on this). > > I am starting to wonder, though, if something in Gnome hasn't changed (or > maybe a setting got clobbered during the upgrade), because another > application has started showing the same problem (LibreOffice Calc is now > doing the same thing GnuCash does - it opens correctly sized, but not > correctly positioned). So I am going to try to research that aspect and see > if there is a setting in Gnome that may be overriding the application's > requested startup positioning. > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 01:26 David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Wouldn't the position on the desktop be a desktop setting? How do other > > program windows position themselves when opened? In my test system of > > Lubuntu 22.04 GnuCash opened the first time in the center of the desktop > > and thereafter in the same place it was when I closed it, just as Libre > > Office , web browsers, games and other programs do. > > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:46 PM Tracy <gnul...@vbot.org> wrote: > > > >> Gyle, > >> > >> Thanks for the response. The desktop icons and such work a little > >> differently under Ubuntu than under Windows. But even so, if I go > >> directly to the exectuable and launch the application from there, I get > >> the same result. > >> > >> And thank you for correcting my mistake there - it is indeed > >> Preferences, not Settings - and the heading immediately over the Save > >> Window Size And Position is Window Geometry. > >> > >> > >> On 7/11/22 20:13, Gyle McCollam wrote: > >> > Tracy, > >> > I'm on 4.11 on Windows 11 so I may have different options. Mine is > >> under Edit/Preferences/Windows/Window Geometry and has a check box for > >> "save window size and position". It works fine. However, if the icon > to > >> start Gnucash has the properties set for anything other than "Normal > >> Window", they override the setting in Gnucash. If it is set to "Normal > >> Window" then Gnucash works the way you would like. So my suggestion is > to > >> check how your Gnucash Icon is set. Hope that helps. > >> > > >> > > >> > Thank You, > >> > > >> > Gyle McCollam > >> > > >> > Gyle McCollam > >> > > >> > gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@gyleshomes.com> email > >> > > >> > ________________________________ > >> > From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail....@gnucash.org > > > >> on behalf of Tracy <gnul...@vbot.org> > >> > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 7:10 PM > >> > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > >> > Subject: [GNC] Saving window position (and size) > >> > > >> > Ubuntu 22.04 > >> > Gnucash 4.8 > >> > > >> > In the Edit > Settings dialog, under "Window" there is an option to > save > >> > the current window size and position. However, this does not appear to > >> > be working fully - when I position GnuCash on the screen, then close > it, > >> > then reopen it, it opens with the correct size, but not in the correct > >> > position - instead of where I left it, it opens with the upper left > >> > corner of the GnuCash window positioned at the upper left corner of > the > >> > desktop (instead of having the GnuCash window positioned 2/3 of the > way > >> > to the right on the desktop, as it was when I closed it). > >> > > >> > I have looked into the Wiki and found that the window position and > size > >> > is stored in: > >> > > >> > $HOME/.local/share/gnucash/books/GnuTest.gnucash.gcm > >> > > >> > Closing GnuCash and editing this file (specifically changing the > >> > WindowPosition property in the [Window 1] section) does not change the > >> > startup position of the GnuCash window. > >> > > >> > Is there another place I should be looking for this, or am I > completely > >> > confused and there is another setting in the Settings window that I > >> > should be looking at, or....? > >> > > >> > Note that this was an upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 and GnuCash 3.<I don't > >> > remember the point version> so it is possible that there are files or > >> > settings that were left behind by the upgrade process that are > >> > interfering (if so, and someone can point me to a resource for > cleaning > >> > up those settings, I would be happy to poke at it...) > >> > > >> > Thanks in advance for any information or assistance on this. > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > 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. > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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. > >> > > > > > > -- > > David Carlson > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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. 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