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

[N B Day <nbday charter net>]

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 12:08 -0400, George Reeke wrote:
....
>    When I start evolution after a reboot, the main window comes
> up too small.  I adjust it and it stays that way, even if
> restarted, for the rest of the session, but does not remember
> between sessions, at least not all the time.
>    Taking the attitude that I don't really care if this is an
> evolution or a window manager issue, I just wanted to fix it, so
> I went poking around in all the hidden files in my home directory,
> and in ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/shell/view-defaults there is a
> file called %gconf.xml that has entries called 'height' and
> 'width'. 
Have you tried setting these values with the gconf-editor program?

(Run gconf-editor from a terminal within gnome as yourself).  You'll
find them under /Apps/Evolution.  Maybe hand editing them isn't sticky
for some reason.

regards,


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