Re: [Evolution] How to use evolution again? Flood of alarm windows necessitates system hard reset.

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 13:27 -0700, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 16:06 -0400, Chris Metzler wrote:
> > I'm in a similar state now; I haven't run Evolution in a couple of
> > months because of being away.  I'd like to start using it as my
> > calendaring app again.  How do I prevent the flood of alarm
> > announcements at startup?  I've googled for some sort of a manual
> > that will tell me either about command line options or about how
> > to manually edit configuration files,
>
> Do this:
> $-> date +'%s'
>
> Take the resultant string, edit
> ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/calendar/notify/%gconf.xml and modify the
> "last_notification_time" line to use that string for mtime and value.
>
> Or you can take that date string and use gconf-editor.  Drill down to
> apps->evolution->calendar->notify and change the value for
> "last_notification_time" there.

This should be fixed in 2.0 by the way.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.