JP, I am running evolution 2.0.2. At what version were you able to actually start another evolution instance on two different displays? What version are you running?
Brett On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 14:00 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:58 -0500, Brett Anderson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been digging around on mailing lists about this, but haven't been > > able to come up with any good answers. > > > > Essentially, I want to be able to start up evolution on my machine at > > work, go home, and then be able to ssh into my machine at work and have > > evolution come up on my X session at home. > > > > What happens instead is, evolution will open up another evolution window > > on the initial display. > > > > >From what I have read the same thing would happen if you started two X > > sessions as the same user on the machine locally as well. It seems to > > have something to do with oafd. > > > > Does anyone know if there is a work around for this? What exactly is the > > reason for why this doesn't work? > > Originally it was bonobo, now the only real reason is that the camel > session does not get shared (I have a patch in my tree for this). So if > you mark a message as "read" in a local mail box (ie POP) the view on > the other display does not get updated. I'm not sure what other issues > might crop up either. > > -JP _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution