[TriLUG] Evolution

Rick DeNatale rick.denatale at gmail.com
Sun Apr 10 09:37:24 EDT 2005


When I was using Evolution I ran it via a shell script which was
something like this

#!/bin/bash

evolution --force-shutdown
evolution
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This was because Evolution would often seem to hang up, so I'd always
have to kill it and start another instance.  This should solve your
problem also.

On Apr 9, 2005 7:29 PM, Aaron Bockover <abockover.trilug at aaronbock.net> wrote:
> Regarding my post about never having issues with Evolution in the
> preceding Thunderbird thread... I just found one!
> 
> This has actually always annoyed me, but I never really think about
> being an issue...
> 
> If I have an instance of Evolution running on some VD, and may not
> realize it, I go to launch Evolution from the panel - this launches
> another instance - and it doesn't load properly, probably because the
> already running instance has locked some files or something. Anywhoo,
> I'm left with a blank (no folders, messages) instance of Evolution that
> takes about 10 seconds to close. Then I move on, scrolling through VDs,
> looking for my open instance.
> 
> Anyone else have this problem? Any workarounds, short of writing a shell
> script that searches for an instance?
> 
> --Aaron
> 
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