On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 14:21 -0500, ben miller wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible to run evolution so that just a mail > compose window launches? The evolution man page (at least on Gutsy) says: -c, --component=COMPONENT Start Evolution by activating the desired component. COMPONENT is one of ‘mail’, ‘calendar’, ‘contacts’, ‘tasks’, ‘memos’.