Hi,
evolution newbie error: Using the mouse I shrank the task panel width in calendar window to zero size. Now I am unable to get it back. Every time I place the mouse near the window border I either enable the scrollbar or find myself resizing the entire window. Resetting the entire window layout is apparently not available. Inspecting dconf and setting hpane and vpane settings for tasks to defaults did not do it (thought it was worth a try).
Thanks for any hint.
Best
Hmm, does that also happen when running Evolution maximized?
(I sent this through mail originally, but it has got lost on the route; maybe it’ll be received another day, just do not be surprised if yes).
On Thu, 2024-11-07 at 16:01 +0100, gnometux via GNOME Discourse wrote:
Inspecting dconf and setting hpane and vpane settings for tasks to
defaults did not do it
Hi,
try what Andre suggested.
I see all the views have a scrollbar, but maybe if you pick the List
View and then search for something not in the events, thus the list is
empty (which does not enable the scrollbar), then it’ll be possible to
resurrect it from the GUI. Or maybe in the Year view.
The idea with the DConf is correct, it is stored there. Only the key
name is hpane-position and for the Month view specifically
month-hpane-position. Thus running from a terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.calendar hpane-position 200
gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.calendar month-hpane-position 200
will set the sizes to 200 pixels. You can do that while Evolution is
running, the change will be propagated into the GUI immediately.
Bye,
Milan
Maximising the window: That exactly did the job. Thanks indeed!
… therefore I did not delve into gsettings. But it is sure good to know, where to look for something like this next time. By chance: Are these dconf variables documented somewhere else rather than in the source code? Asking google for “dconf variable documentation” did not give something useful in the top few results. But that may be another topic.
The original topic is solved! Many thanks for the kind help!
Best,
Hi,
try what Andre suggested.
I see all the views have a scrollbar, but maybe if you pick the List
View and then search for something not in the events, thus the list is
empty (which does not enable the scrollbar), then it’ll be possible to
resurrect it from the GUI. Or maybe in the Year view.
The idea with the DConf is correct, it is stored there. Only the key
name is hpane-position and for the Month view specifically
month-hpane-position. Thus running from a terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.calendar hpane-position 200
gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.calendar month-hpane-position 200
will set the sizes to 200 pixels. You can do that while Evolution is
running, the change will be propagated into the GUI immediately.
Bye,
Milan
When you open a D-Conf editor (dconf-editor app on most distros), then you can navigate to the keys and read some information about them there.
A gsettings describe org.gnome.evolution.calendar hpane-position provides only the long description, not the short summary.
Thanks for the hint on the gsettings command!
I guess it takes some getting used to this in order to use dconf to its potential. And to realize that settings are different for month view and other views and thus will need different parameters.
Thanks again.
Best,
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