Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-03-02 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 08:22 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > I suspect part of the OP's intent with the reset is in case he, or > some earlier install process, had differing defaults in the global > area. Aplenty of things install a global config, if only to make the > available configs apparent. T

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-03-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 26Feb2022 20:35, Tim wrote: >On Sat, 2022-02-26 at 00:07 +0100, greg wrote: >> I am not sure if there are readers on this list for these obvious >> things. >> Regardless, "you" above should not refer to me, if it does. > >It's the global "you," or "not me." So, "you" configured for the whole c

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-02-26 Thread Mike Wright
On 2/26/22 03:36, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2022-02-26 at 20:35 +1030, Tim via users wrote: On Sat, 2022-02-26 at 00:07 +0100, greg wrote: I am not sure if there are readers on this list for these obvious things. Regardless, "you" above should not refer to me, if it does. It's the gl

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2022-02-26 at 20:35 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2022-02-26 at 00:07 +0100, greg wrote: > > I am not sure if there are readers on this list for these obvious > > things. > > Regardless, "you" above should not refer to me, if it does. > > It's the global "you," or "not me." Or as

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-02-26 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2022-02-26 at 00:07 +0100, greg wrote: > I am not sure if there are readers on this list for these obvious > things. > Regardless, "you" above should not refer to me, if it does. It's the global "you," or "not me." -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 13:5

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-02-25 Thread greg
> If so, then definitely you wouldn't want to use sudo. Using sudo like > in the first message would be trying to modify the root user's > configuration. > > Most things on Linux are configured for the user who's logged in. Few > things are configured for the whole computer. If a person uses sud

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-02-24 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> I'm not sure why you're doing this with sudo. Aren't you resetting >> your own user-account's dconf parameters? Greg: > Ye, that is the case: the ~/.config/dconf/user file gets modified. If so, then definitely you wouldn't want to use sudo. Using sudo like in the first message would be

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-02-24 Thread greg
> You haven't tried the syntax shown in the example: > > dconf reset -f /org/gnome/evolution/ > This syntax does work, I used it as in dconf reset -f /org/gnome/terminal/ > I'm not sure why you're doing this with sudo. Aren't you resetting > your own user-account's dconf parameters? Ye, t

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-02-23 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 07:40 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > [chris@fedora ~]$ sudo dconf -f reset /org/gnome/evolution/ > [sudo] password for chris: > error: unknown command -f > > > [chris@fedora ~]$ sudo dconf reset /org/gnome/evolution/ -f > error: -f must be given to (recursively) reset entire di

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

2022-02-23 Thread Branko Grubić
On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 07:40 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to erase everything in Evolution and start it over as if > I > had just installed Fedora and Evolution > > I asked on Reddit and I got this far: > > I was able to do: > > rm -rf ~/.config/evolution > > rm -rf ~/.local/sh

Evolution: Starting Over

2022-02-23 Thread c. marlow
Hi, I am trying to erase everything in Evolution and start it over as if I had just installed Fedora and Evolution I asked on Reddit and I got this far: I was able to do: rm -rf ~/.config/evolution rm -rf ~/.local/share/evolution rm -rf ~/.cache/evolution But when I get to: dconf reset /or