Yep, but if you haven't opened a particular account yet, then it will open
the first time according to that default setting you found. Also, it can
be changed on the fly when using the account. I think that is under the
view menu item.
I often change the view on the fly depending on what I want
I wanted to see what Double line mode looked like, so I enabled it via:
Edit
Preferences
Register Defaults
Other Defaults
Double line mode
I gave it a try in a few accounts; but did not like it.
I shut down Gnucash.
I restarted Gnucash.
I went back to the above Register Defaults
