On Sat, 2021-10-16 at 15:57 -0600, larry wrote: > On Sat, 2021-10-16 at 22:39 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > What is speaking against > > > > $ evolution --help | grep shutdown > > > > --force-shutdown Forcibly shut down Evolution > > > > ? > > > Apparently, nothing. I was unaware of the option. I am relatively > > > new to Linux, and while I definitely know about thngs like --help > > > and man pages, I did not think to try them, as Evolution comes > > > with > > > its own help file, and I saw nothing in it to indicate forced > > > shutdown as a possibility. > > $ man evolution > > ... > > --force-shutdown > > Forcibly shut down Evolution and background > > Evolution- > > Data-Server processes. > > > > Uh.. right. > > Hence: > "while I definitely know about things like --help and man pages, I > did > not think to try them, as Evolution comes with its own help file, and > I > saw nothing in it to indicate forced shutdown as a possibility."
It's always worth checking out the man page, even though increasing numbers of GUI-based apps don't seem to have one. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
