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This article was first written in April 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/119)

GConf is GNOME's configuration database. It provides tools for configuring every GNOME application installed. To learn more about what GConf is, how it works, and what tools are available for it, read the very good gnome-gconf documentation

This article was first written in April 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/118)

Create the file /etc/evolution-beeznest-signature.skeleton and adapt it to your needs [1]:

FULLNAME
BeezNest
Web: http://www.beeznest.net
E-mail: info@beeznest.net

Create the file /etc/evolution-gconf-signature.skeleton [

This article was first written in April 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/116)

The configuration is stored in gconf under the namespace /apps/evolution/mail. To list its content:

$ gconftool-2 --recursive-list /apps/evolution/mail

This article was first written in April 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/115)

To set the default HTTP proxy configuration for GNOME using GConf in command-line:

$ gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type string --set /system/http_proxy/host proxy-name
$ gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type string --set /system/http_proxy/port proxy-port

This article was first written in March 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/114)

Note:

The present article has been obsoleted by the recent packages for XAMS, which already does that for you by default.

Introduction

Setting up the DB for XAMS is still somewhat tricky, not because of XAMS, but because of MySQL.

This article was first written in March 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/113)

You have to be root to do this, so be careful [1]. Edit the file evolution-mail-message.xml in /usr/share/evolution/1.4/ui/ or /opt/gnome/share/evolution/1.4/ui/ (depending on your distribution). Search for example for MessageReplyList and add/change the accel-key you want. Restart GNOME for the change to t

This article was first written in February 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/111)

To activate the spell-checker in Ximian Evolution (tested on Debian Sarge, but should apply to any Evolution 1.4.x and later), install the gnome-spell package and the aspell dictionaries matching the languages you want to use. Then go in the Tools / Parameters / Composer / Spell-checking menu and activate the dictionaries ou want to use.

This article was first written in February 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/107)

The default values for Shared Memory in Sun's Solaris (starting from 2.6, at least) are set too low to run. Here is how to change it (see also PostgreSQL's Admin Guide, Managing Kernel Ressources): The relevant settings can be changed in /etc/system, for example: set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=0x2000000 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=256 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=256 set semsys:seminfo_semmap=256 set semsys:seminfo_semmni=512

This article was first written in February 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/105)

Here is HOWTO patch Sun's Solaris using Sun PatchPro 2.2.

This article was first written in January 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/99)

This has been originally written by Miguel de Icaza (the famous GNOME hacker and creator of Ximian). This was retrieved from: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/1999-September/msg00036.html. People usually look at the memory sizes for the processes and misinterpret the information.