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

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

On 1/20/2010 11:40 AM, George Reeke wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>     I am adding to this thread from last summer because a new piece
> of information has come to light which might help someone give me
> the answer.
>     The problem was and is that, at least in RedHat EL5 with
> Evo 2.12.3, after a reboot, Evo comes up with a small default
> window size.  After it is resized, the new size comes back when
> Evo dies, as it does about twice a day, and is restarted from its
> panel icon.  Previous posts on this list mostly suggested using
> gconf editor to adjust the window size.  In my hands, the size
> set in this manner was not remembered.
>     The new information is this:  I noticed that the small window
> only comes up when Evo is on the desktop and the desktop setup
> is remembered so Evo starts up automatically after the reboot
> and restart of X.  If I remove Evo from the remembered setup
> [I'm not sure what I did to cause this, it just disappeared recently],
> i.e. so Evo does not come up automatically when startx is done,
> then start Evo from the control panel icon, it comes up with the
> correct larger window size that I set it to last time.
>     Does this make sense to anybody?  It looks like the remembered
> startup configuration is stored somewhere with a wrong window size,
> and if I could find and edit that, instead of the startup window
> size set in gconf editor and used when starting from the panel icon,
> then everything would be OK.
>     Many thanks for any insight on this,
>     George Reeke
>
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google for references to gnome user session storage.  If i had to guess, your user session would be kept in
$HOME/.config/gnome-session/ -- but that's a guess



I prefer to NOT have nautilus take ownership of my desktop, so I changed the RestartCommand for nautilus in 
/usr/share/gnome/default.session to be --no-desktop.  So on startup, nautilus doesn't take control -- and, if 
i accidentally start it such that it does take control, I can kill it and the restart won't.

$ cat /usr/share/gnome/default.session
# This is the default session that is launched if the user doesn't
# already have a session.
# The RestartCommand specifies the command to run from the $PATH.
# The Priority determines the order in which the commands are started
# (with Priority = 0 first) and defaults to 50.
# The id provides a name that is unique within this file and passed to the
# app as the client id which it must use to register with gnome-session.
# The clients must be numbered from 0 to the value of num_clients - 1.

[Default]
num_clients=3
0,id=default0
0,Priority=0
0,RestartCommand=gnome-wm --default-wm gnome-wm --sm-client-id default0
1,id=default1
1,Priority=10
1,RestartCommand=gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
2,id=default2
2,Priority=20
2,RestartCommand=nautilus --no-desktop --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2