Hi Pete: Thank you for the tips. Yes, I am using GOA. I edit the settings using seahorse. As my account uses the Google two step verification process (they send you an sms on your hand phone to authenticate you in addition to your password) I had to create an app password....which I did. This is what is used for Evolution. I can read the calendar and but not create one. I can[t read the contacts. i tried turning off the Birthdays and Anniversaries everywhere I could find but it still throws this error: Failed to open calendar 'Contacts : Birthdays & Anniversaries' Invalid object As to the performance, that one will likely be tricky as you've suggested. I've rebuilt all my xf86 drivers, all the mesa stiff and confirmed i've got 3D accel working: glxinfo | grep render direct rendering: Yes GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD TURKS (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.5.1) GL_ARB_conditional_render_inverted, GL_ARB_conservative_depth, GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp, GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil, GL_ARB_conditional_render_inverted, GL_ARB_conservative_depth, GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp, GL_NV_fog_distance, GL_OES_fbo_render_mipmap, GL_OES_get_program_binary, GL_OES_mapbuffer, So at least I know that is not the problem. Will keep banging away at it and see where it takes us. I'm going to try two things.... Rebuild with spamassissin excluded, Uninstall all the gnome2 libraries and packages I have....there might be something there causing the issues. Cheers, John On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 08:48 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: What works: Eamil. What partially works: Calander. I can see everything but when I try and create meeting in the calendar, I get the following error: Failed to open calendar 'Contacts : Birthdays & Anniversaries' Contacts: Doesn't work at all.How did you create the account in Evolution? Try using Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) to provision the account if that isn't what you used. Contacts definitely works with Gmail. For the calendar error, Evo uses information in your Contacts for the Birthday & Anniversaries calendar: if your contacts aren't working properly, then the B&A isn't going to work. What you need to do is tell Evo to not use the B&A for anything. So Edit -> Preferences -> Calendar & Tasks. Go through each tab and unclick the "Birthday & Anniversaries" where it appears (in Reminders and Meeting Invitations probably). You might also want to untick that calendar in the calendar view as well.My issue is with evolution generai performance. I am running on XFCE4-12. When I click to open an email, a new windows pops up almost immediately and its all black inside for about 1-2 seconds, and then the email eventually, rather slowly paints in. When I scroll through the email lists whether on local folders or on folders on the server, there is a very large lag. Its only JUST usable.As others have said, that could be a theme issue or at least something to do with the underlying window manager, not an Evolution issue. Might I suggest you try something like Fedora (you can run it as a LiveCD without installing) to see what it is like on your system with a full Gnome desktop. If that works and you are using Evolution on a day-to-day basis as a work tool, then you might want to think about running Gnome rather than XFCE (*) - it will largely just work. P. * Yes, I know some people don't like Gnome, that people think it's bloatware, that users want a "Start" button. But it's a tool, and a tool is useless if it doesn't do the job properly. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list gnome org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- John Edward Serink Product Applications Engineer, Advanced Positioning Trimble Navigation Singapore PTE Ltd. 80 Marine Parade Road, Co. Reg. No. 199204958W #22-06 Parkway Parade Singapore 449269 Tel 65-6348-2212 Fax 65-6348-2232 DID 65-6348-2178 HP 65-9129-4250 Skype: johnserink |