Thanks, John, but I don't think I asked my question clearly. It concerns
how to close both windows when I've finished working, without losing the
customizations I've already done on the Accounts list. (By
"customizations", I mean expanding most (not all) branches of the tree
to show subaccounts right down to the bottom level, and selecting
additional columns, and setting column widths.)

I'm in Windows.

1. While viewing the list of accounts, I click Windows » New Window with
Page. Now I have a separate window with the list of accounts, but there
is no longer an Accounts tab in the original window.

2a. If I now close the original window and then close the child window
of just the Accounts list, when I reopen GC I have only the Accounts
tab. The other tabs, with column widths and filters, are gone.

2b. In the opposite order, closing first the new window containing the
Accounts list and then the original window, when I reopen GC the other
tabs are as they were before but there is no Accounts list. Clicking
View » New Accounts Page. gives me a page with just Imbalance, Orphan,
and the five top-level accounts; my customizations are all gone.

As I mentioned earlier: I can recover from (2a) or (2b) by copying a
backup of my .gcm file to %APPDATA%\GnuCash\books before reopening GC.

My question is, after getting the Accounts page into a separate window,
is there any way to close GC without losing either the customizations of
the Accounts page or the geometry and filters of all the other tabs --
other than manually reverting to a saved .gcm file?

If the answer is "No, that's the only way", it's not the end of the
world. I'm just trying to increase my knowledge of GC's window management.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2024-09-21 13:53, John Ralls wrote:
> Two ways that work on Windows:
>   Move the new one out of the way. 
>   Click and hold the GnuCash icon in the taskbar so it lets you pick which 
> window to switch to
> 
> On Linux you can tap the Alt key to unstack all of the open windows for all 
> applications then click the one you want to use.
> 
> On MacOS you tap the F3 key to do the same. You can cycle through the current 
> app’s windows with cmd-`.
> 
> On all platforms you can use the Windows menu to select the window you want 
> focussed.
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