Re: [Evolution] Bug

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 15:45 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 15:18 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Except that Evo needs to connect to an X server even just to shut down.
> > I've occasionally wanted to log in remotely and kill an Evo session, and
> > pkill is simpler in this case. (I know you can do "ssh -X" but I for one
> > never remember that until I've already logged in :-)
>
> Handy tip:
>
> "--force-shutdown" just spawns ${libexec}/evolution/2.12/killev.
> Calling killev directly doesn't require a display.

That's useful to know.

In earlier incarnations of Evo, the recommendation was to run "killev",
since this was also installed as a command. Why was this changed?

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