On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:29, Glen Roberts wrote: > Most folks use the root account rather than creating > their own at one time or another when building a Linux > box. This causes problems when using apps like Gnome, > screensavers and Evolution. So, here I am trying to > bring my Evolutions 1.4 settings over to my personal > account and they're not working hence having to resort > to using Yahoo for email. > > Using su I've copied the evolution directory over but > it still does not use them. What gives? How can one > use existing Evolution settings even when the program > won't import it's OWN files?
Here's a way I ended up working around this: After setting up my system and using it for a few days as "root", I copied the /root/evolution folder to a VFAT drive, logged out/in as the user I wanted (me, I reckon), got all my settings/desktops/wm's the way I wanted, then ran Evo again...without really setting up any REAL accounts, then killed Evo (killev) and deleted the existing ~/home/mynamegoeshere/evolution diretory and copied the old one off the VFAT partition where I wanted it, and ran Evo again...voila! all my account info was there, all my email was there... A bit roundabout, but it worked... -- Thu Jun 26 23:35:00 EST 2003 23:35:00 up 1 day, 23:21, 2 users, load average: 0.94, 1.01, 1.01 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and... Ooohh, that's much better. -- Steven Wright _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
