Re: [Evolution] How to make Evolution remember its main window size--revisited

["Michael M. Moore" <michael writemoore net>]

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 17:38 -0400, George Reeke wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:59 -0700, N B Day wrote:
> > >
> > I think at this point I'd leave Gnome entirely for TWM or KDE or
> > whatever else you have on your machine, shut down gconftool-2 with
> > "gconftool-2 --shutdown", do the same for evolution, "evolution
> > --force-shutdown",  and then try setting my desired values with
> > gconf-editor.
> Interesting idea, but no cigar.  I don't have KDE installed, TWM
> is installed but I have never used it and when I do try to start
> it up it fails with a message that it cannot open the display.
> I have no interest in debugging this problem.
>
> Anyway, what reason is there to think gconf-editor would work
> outside the gnome environment for which it was designed?  This
> seems a bit of a stab in the dark.

This is an aside, not related to your main issue, but more of an FYI.
Many window managers will happily pick up your GNOME or KDE settings if
you load them.  Some window managers even make it easy:  Openbox, for
example, ships with example autostart scripts (which you can use or not
use as you see fit) that will start processes needed to load your GNOME
or KDE settings.  In those scenarios, gconf-editor will work outside
GNOME, though only because you are, technically, running parts of the
GNOME DE.  In theory, any window manager that adheres to free desktop
standards should be able to utilize GNOME or KDE settings.  In practice,
of course, numerous other factors come into play.

-- 
Michael M.