Re: [Evolution] Multiple instances of evolution

[Brett Anderson <brett cs jhu edu>]

JP,

I am running evolution 2.0.2. At what version were you able to actually
start another evolution instance on two different displays? What version
are you running?

Brett

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 14:00 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:58 -0500, Brett Anderson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been digging around on mailing lists about this, but haven't been
> > able to come up with any good answers.
> >
> > Essentially, I want to be able to start up evolution on my machine at
> > work, go home, and then be able to ssh into my machine at work and have
> > evolution come up on my X session at home.
> >
> > What happens instead is, evolution will open up another evolution window
> > on the initial display.
> >
> > > From what I have read the same thing would happen if you started two X
> > sessions as the same user on the machine locally as well. It seems to
> > have something to do with oafd.
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is a work around for this? What exactly is the
> > reason for why this doesn't work?
>
> Originally it was bonobo, now the only real reason is that the camel
> session does not get shared (I have a patch in my tree for this).  So if
> you mark a message as "read" in a local mail box (ie POP) the view on
> the other display does not get updated.  I'm not sure what other issues
> might crop up either.
>
> -JP