you can't. evolution uses gconf which stores all settings in its own prefix and is a system-wide daemon, so no environment variables will help there.
Jeff On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 15:18 -0400, Booth, David (W3C Fellow - Boston) wrote: > How can I tell evolution what directory to use, instead of the default > ~/.evolution? I want to run more than one instance of evolution for > different mail accounts, and have them stay completely separate -- not > multiple identities within the same Evolution console and evolution > directory. > > This ought to be trivially easy--presumably by setting the appropriate > environment variable or command-line option. However, I have been > unable to find information about Evolution environment variables, except > in reference to specifying what browser to use (which is apparently NOT > accomplished with env vars, BTW), and none of the command-line options > that I've found seem relevant. Apparently there is no man page :( and > the evolution user guide seems to have no mention of this. Searching > the archives and the Web in general have similarly been fruitless. > > Any idea how to do this? It ought to be trivially easy. > > I'm using evolution 2.0.4 on Gnome / Debian. > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
