Thanks very much, Sherman! That answers my question. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com
On 2024-09-21 15:25, Sherman Yoder wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
