Today, when I went to price database to download some closing amounts,
the application hung up and I to force close GC (3.8). I tried a second
time with the same result. This is a first for this version of GC. It
used to happen often on the 2.6.19 version.
I do not know what caused it today; it has been perfect since I
installed it (about a week ago. It would be great if you could just kill
the price database without also killing GC.
Regards,
Les
On 3/6/20 8:24 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 5:52 PM Tommy Trussell
<tommy.truss...@gmail.com <mailto:tommy.truss...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 4:20 PM Les <lellio...@gmail.com
<mailto:lellio...@gmail.com>> wrote:
After using the 3.8 version on Linux Mint 19.1, I find that is
much
faster than the 2.6.19 version. I have one issue regarding
the accounts
page, I entered an incorrect amount for a payment and then
tried to
remove it (even deleting the line) but nothing worked. I
finally closed
GC without saving and reopened it and entered the correct
information.
Is this a known bug?
I have noticed this, too; I believe it's a screen refresh issue.
I'm trying to replicate it on Ubuntu 19.10 and cannot, so I think
it's an issue with a build based upon Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (which your
Mint probably is). That's the version I use in my office.
Here's what I have noticed -- I click on a transaction and choose
Delete from the toolbar. A confirmation dialog pops up, and I
agree that I want to delete, but the transaction does not
disappear from the register. HOWEVER if I close and reopen the
register, (or maybe if I choose View --> Refresh ?) the
transaction is gone.
I have noticed a few other display issues with GnuCash built for
Ubuntu 18.04. The register colors are strange around the text,
especially noticeably on the date field.
I feel compelled to update this a little bit -- As I said before, I
think things look different on my system now that I've installed
dconf-editor on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic" system. I installed it so
I could have a look at the GTK+ inspector and its CSS features. I
haven't adjusted any CSS, but the application installation seems to
have brought in a few other packages, too.
Here's more about using the inspector:
https://blog.gtk.org/2017/04/05/the-gtk-inspector/
After installing dconf-editor, I have not been able to replicate the
deleted transaction refresh issue. Though maybe I just I haven't yet
hit the exact sequence that triggers it. You might try installing
dconf-editor and see if it improves it for you, too. I believe having
it should otherwise be benign.
ONE ADDITIONAL strange thing, however...
Sometimes I want to enter data from my laptop into a GnuCash file
that's on my office computer, so I open GnuCash using ssh:
$ ssh -X user@host gnucash /path/to/datafile.gnucash
I was surprised to see the GnuCash windows on my laptop (running
Ubuntu 19.10) look good, even though the application is running from
the desktop system (running Ubuntu 18.04). I naively expected it to
have the same display issue around highlighted text. (Specifically:
when text is being edited, the text is surrounded by a rounded
rectangle with a thin border and a white background.)
SO I just spent (entirely too many) minutes testing some scenarios...
At this moment I am preparing a new CPU for my office running Ubuntu
18.04, so I decided to try the same task connecting from a newly
installed Ubuntu 18.04 client to the old Ubuntu 18.04 host.
Ubuntu 18.04 client, ordinary Ubuntu desktop: I found that the strange
coloration around highlighted fields is still present when the client
is an "ordinary" Ubuntu 18.04 desktop.
Ubuntu 18.04 client, running Wayland: The coloration has the same
problem as regular Ubuntu. (However the SSH windows are quite sluggish.)
Ubuntu 18.04 client, MATE desktop: The coloration around highlighted
text looks much better.
I just went back to the old desktop and opened the gnome-tweaks tool
and played with some themes... the default Ubuntu application theme is
"Ambiance," and I see the text edit problem with both Ambiance AND
Radiance, but the text looks more consistent when some of the other
themes. So there MIGHT be a weird Gnome theme issue with GnuCash built
under Ubuntu 18.04. As I suggested, the default theme in Ubuntu MATE
seems to work better.
I think I've tinkered enough with this for now. Maybe someone who
understands Gnome themes better will suggest something easier to
implement.
P.S.: The next Ubuntu LTS release is scheduled for April, so the
updated libraries should filter to distros like Mint by this summer
sometime.
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