Re: [Evolution] gconf-edit

[George Reeke <reeke mail rockefeller edu>]

Dear colleagues,
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 07:26 -0500, Richard wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 13:11 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 12:37 +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote:
> > > > Its the left pane with the inbox and all the sub directories that
> > > keeep
> > > > s reverting back to the default. The RH panes seem OK.
> > >
> > > Curious. I see the same behaviour in 2.32.1 on FreeBSD-7.3 i386/Gnome
> > > 2.32.1. 
> >
> >     Hi,
> > I'm wondering what is your window state when you run evolution. I'm
> > pretty much sure that you have the window maximized, and when you
> > restore it from the maximized state, then you get much smaller window
> > than it is when maximized. Am I right?
> >
> > People whom are not using maximized window or their restored window is
> > approximately the same size as the maximized window don't see an issue
> > of this kind.
> >     Hope that helps,
> >     Milan

Perhaps I can shed some light on this, although I am stuck at
evo 2.12.3 as supplied by RedHat 5.6.
I found that when I saved my desktop configuration using the
gnome preferences, evolution would always come up in some
undesirable configuration.  After a bunch of inquiries on
this list, where I never did find out where config info like
window size is kept, one day I shut down evolution before
saving the configuration, logging off, and powering down.
Now I just leave it that way.  So when I start up, there
is no evolution window on screen.  Then I click the
evolution launcher button in the panel at the bottom of
the screen and evolution starts up just the way I left
it.  I shut down seldom enough that this workaround is OK
for me.
   I don't know if this is true with more recent versions;
I'd love to hear whether others have had this experience,
and if so, again whether anyone knows where this saved
desktop info is kept so it could be edited manually.
[Yes, I know it is saved in memory when gnome is running--
I tried to find and edit it from a command-line screen
with gnome shut down and never got anywhere that way either.]
   Best wishes,
George Reeke, Ph.D.
Head, Laboratory of Biological Modelling
The Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue
New York, NY  10065
email:  reeke rockefeller edu