At 02:21 PM 12/27/2005, Craig White wrote: >On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 14:14 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > This all comes out of figuring out how I might run Evolution like > I run Eudora. > > > > I see where Evolution places its data in a hidden directory: ~/.evolution > > > > Now why it is felt necessary to put all of this stuff in hidden > > directories is beyond me. > > > > So it would seem that Evolution is treating each useid as a > > personality for the logged in user. > > > > Given the way Evolution organizes its data, I could create some more > > Linux users, and either: > > > > Give my main user file permissions to them and somehow run copies of > > Evolution using those /home/user directories. Anyone know how to do that? > > > > Or do I somehow have to have multiple simultaneous logins? And switch > > between them? I know there is a way to have 4 desktops.... >---- >it's not entirely clear what you are trying to actually accomplish. For each of my 'identities' (day job, home business, teaching job, etc) to have the mail totally separated. Not to have all the mail munged together, particularly the in and out boxes! Also folder 'foo' can mean one thing at work and another for teaching. Yes, I could name them differently, but I have been doing it this for a lot of years. >Evolution probably is only going to support one instance per user. So can I run multiple Evolutions? I suspect I can with multiple workspaces, but that is not what I want. >As for why evolution puts its files in hidden directories is because >that is pretty much the gnome way and evolution is very much a gnome >application. I am taking this to the gnome support forums (which I finally figured out how to find). I did a search and saw a pointer to 'Fast User Switch Applet', but only source no rpm. >Craig > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos