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

2010-01-20 Thread Reid Thompson
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, Ev

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

2010-01-20 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 12:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > BTW 2.12.3 is *really* out of date (by several years). I don't know if > RHEL 5 supports a more recent version but if so you'd be strongly > advised to upgrade it. No, that's the final version for RHEL 5. Enterprise software tends to

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

2010-01-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 11:40 -0500, 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

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

2010-01-20 Thread George Reeke
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. A

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

2009-07-01 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 17:38 -0400, George Reeke wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:59 -0700, N B Day wrote: > > > > > I think at this point I'd leave Gnome entirely for TWM or KDE or > > whatever else you have on your machine, shut down gconftool-2 with > > "gconftool-2 --shutdown", do the same for

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

2009-06-30 Thread George Reeke
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:59 -0700, N B Day wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:08 -0400, George Reeke wrote: > > > > Thanks, > > George Reeke > > > > Here is the text of my error message: > > The application "gconf-editor" attempted to change an aspect of your > > configuration that your system a

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

2009-06-11 Thread N B Day
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:08 -0400, George Reeke wrote: > Thanks, > George Reeke > > Here is the text of my error message: > The application "gconf-editor" attempted to change an aspect of your > configuration that your system administrator or operating system > vendor does not allow you to chang

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

2009-06-11 Thread George Reeke
Dear Matthew, Suman et al., On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 09:05 +0530, Suman Manjunath wrote: > 2009/6/10 Matthew Barnes : > > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 17:43 -0400, George Reeke wrote: > >> Thanks for your suggestion. For me, it doesn't work. > >> I killed evolution, changed the height and width in gconf edi

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

2009-06-09 Thread Suman Manjunath
2009/6/10 Matthew Barnes : > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 17:43 -0400, George Reeke wrote: >> Thanks for your suggestion.  For me, it doesn't work. >> I killed evolution, changed the height and width in gconf editor in >> two places, since the names are not unambiguous: >> apps/evolution/mail/message_wind

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

2009-06-09 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 17:43 -0400, George Reeke wrote: > Thanks for your suggestion. For me, it doesn't work. > I killed evolution, changed the height and width in gconf editor in > two places, since the names are not unambiguous: > apps/evolution/mail/message_window and > apps/evolution/shell/vie

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

2009-06-09 Thread George Reeke
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 11:37 -0700, N B Day wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 12:08 -0400, George Reeke wrote: > > >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 n

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

2009-06-09 Thread N B Day
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 12:08 -0400, George Reeke wrote: >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. >

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

2009-06-09 Thread George Reeke
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