Dear colleagues, There are many postings on this topic in the list archives, so don't read this if it bores you, but I can't find a usable answer there, so I will bring it up again with a note on how I tried and failed to solve the problem, in the hope that this idea will tickle someone to speak up who has the final little bit of information we need to defeat this beast. (I am stuck at Evolution 2.12.3 due to using RedHat EL 5.3, gnome-desktop and metacity 2.16.0, but I'm guessing this is the same in more recent versions judging by the ancient archive postings.) 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'. This seems to be where it stores the window size. If I kill evolution (with --force-shutdown), edit these entries, and start evolution up again, most of the time it just resets to the old small window size and edits these entries back to what they were. But strangely, I can find "magic numbers" that are obeyed and stay put for the rest of the session. New session-- old numbers back again. I tried changing the file mode to 444, but some code somewhere changes it back to 600 and I am again defeated. Obviously, what I need to fix this problem without delving into the code is just to know where the global defaults are stored so I can edit them. I looked in /usr/share/evolution (I have root access) but could not find what I was looking for there. So: Desperate plea: Does somebody know where the global default window size is stored, so I and everybody else with this problem can edit it and not have it automagically turn back to the original small size?? Thanks and the best to all, George Reeke, Ph.D. Head, Laboratory of Biological Modelling The Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue New York, NY 10065 email: re...@rockefeller.edu
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