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

[Suman Manjunath <manjunath suman gmail com>]

2009/6/10 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>:
> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 17:43 -0400, George Reeke wrote:
> > Thanks for your suggestion. ÂFor me, it doesn't work.
> > I killed evolution, changed the height and width in gconf editor in
> > two places, since the names are not unambiguous:
> > apps/evolution/mail/message_window and
> > apps/evolution/shell/view_defaults
> > Restarted evolution: ÂNew sizes took effect.
> > Shut down evolution, rebooted computer--old small size is back again.
>
> Check your ~/.gconf directory permissions (including subdirectories) and
> make sure they are writable. ÂWhat you describe sounds like the GConf
> daemon process (gconfd-2) is unable to write its in-memory settings to
> disk when the desktop session is ending, which would explain why your
> settings are retained during the session but lost on reboot.

Unlikely. IMO, you need to set the values as default after changing them.

Open gconf-editor, change the values of view_default sizes, right
click on those values and click on "Set as default" (and/or "Set as
mandatory"). These values should be retained over multiple sessions.

-Suman