Instead of closing the individual windows by clicking on the red X up in the right corner, click on File>Quit, if you are using Windows. That will preserve the customizations you have made to the windows, and will reopen them when you run GnuCash again.
Sherman On 9/21/2024 5:56 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: 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 [1]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 windo w to switch to On Linux you can tap the Alt key to unstack all of the open windows for all appl ications 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 ap p’s windows with cmd-`. On all platforms you can use the Windows menu to select the window you want focu ssed. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [2]gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: [3]https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. References 1. https://BrownMath.com/ 2. mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org 3. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
