bug#28462: [PATCH] Re: bug#28462: gnucash dies when generating reports in i3, works in GNOME

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello Adam,

Adam Van Ymeren <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's a bug report I've been sitting on for a while.  I've been meaning
> to dig in to it further but haven't had the time so I figured I should
> at least post it in case anyone else has experienced this or knows a fix.
>
> Generating reports in gnucash cause it to die when running in the
> default i3 session.
>
> If I run in the default GNOME session it works fine.
>
> I believe the problem is related to not having a running GSettings
> daemon.

As a ratpoison user, I also suffered from problems caused by the lack of
a GSettings backend when not running Gnome; for example, the preferences
would not be saved across GnuCash restarts.

To fix this, I had to manually install dbus and dconf to my profile. The
attached patch automates this by automatically propagating those
dependencies when GnuCash is installed. It would be nicer to make dbus
and dconf work as regular inputs but this would require patching the
sources; I haven't investigated if how feasible this would be.

Could you try the patch and see if it fixes your issues?

0001-gnu-gnucash-Propagate-dbus-and-dconf.patch
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