Instead of killing evolution, you can also shut it down using evolution --force-shutdown
this works for me but I get a warning about this shutdown when I restart evolution. -- evolution doesn't close properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214507 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs