A little further study suggests that I should have placed
config-user.scm in GNC_CONFIG_HOME (in my case
$HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/config/gnucash/) instead of
GNC_DATA_HOME (see
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#In_GNC_CONFIG_HOME).
However, moving it there still did not have the desired effect (i.e. no
new prices appeared in GC's Price DB, even after leaving GC open for a
quarter hour). It occurred to me that this could be caused by
inadequate privileges, but changing the privileges of config-user.scm to
775 (and restarting GC) still did not result in any new price quotes.
As previously mentioned I would like this behaviour to be
user-independent. It appears that I should be able to achieve this by
redirecting GNC_CONFIG_HOME to a common direct by means of environment
variable. However, the pages
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations and
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Environment_Variables disagree on the
names of the environment variables.
On 28.11.22 08:53, rsbrux wrote:
Of course.
Sent from my iPad
On 27 Nov 2022, at 22:41, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
Did you restart GnuCash?
Regards,
John Ralls
On Nov 27, 2022, at 11:07 AM, rsbrux <rsb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
P.S. I created the file
$HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash/config-user.scm
with the contents:
(gnc-hook-add-scm-dangler HOOK-UI-POST-STARTUP
(lambda () (gnc:book-add-quotes #f (gnc-get-current-book)))
under my own Ubuntu login, but the price database does not show any new prices
when I open GC and let it sit for half an hour.
Thanks for your help.
On 27.11.22 18:35, rsbrux wrote:
Thanks, that sounds very promising! My only problem is that I have a Flatpak
installation under Ubuntu.
According to
https://code.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GNC_DATA_HOME,
GNC_DATA_HOME is under $HOME.
However, I have installed GC for all users on the system and want the startup
task to run regardless of who is running GC.
If I put config-user.scm in $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash,
won't it be user-specific?
On 25.11.22 21:07, john wrote:
On Nov 25, 2022, at 12:56 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
wrote:
I used to have a chron job set up to automatically fetch security prices on
first login each day, but found this inconvenient because it locks the data
file, and opening GnuCash is often the first thing I do upon logging in.
I have noticed that when I have GC open interactively, I can start an update in
the price database window and let it run in the background while I continue to
work in the registers.
Would there be some way to get GC to perform the Price Database automatically
when GC is started (interactively), instead of performing the automatic price
update in a separate session?
Yes, but only through 4.x because the quotes system won't be accessible from
Scheme in GnuCash 5, it having been rewritten in C++.
Create if necessary $GNC_DATA_HOME/config-user.scm and edit it to add
(gnc-hook-add-scm-dangler HOOK-UI-POST-STARTUP
(lambda () (gnc:book-add-quotes #f (gnc-get-current-book)))
Regards,
John Ralls
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