Questions tagged [evince]
Evince is a document viewer, part of the GNOME desktop environment and primarily used for PDF and PostScript viewing.
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evince: disable all keyboard shortcuts except PageDown, PageUp
I have file ~/.config/evince/accels but it is empty.
what is the syntax for disabling the idiotic default keyboard shortcuts?
Can I perhaps "dump" the current shorcuts, and then edit?
I ...
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How "trim" spell check's language list (aspell)
I use evince as PDF viewer and I noticed an annoying issue: spell check language list is filled with useless english variants;
(see screenshot below)
Question is: How to trim down the list to a ...
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Evince UI is transparent, how to make it opaque
The UI of Evince on my OS is transparent. As you can see, the whole interface is 100% see-through. This makes working with the app very difficult.
How do I make it appear opaque similar to other GTK ...
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Evince only reliably opens PDFs if Evince is started first, hung Evince instance causes system freeze if clicked on
On my machine (see details below) Evince does not open documents as expected, but this depends on the method used. The two methods I mean are:
(A) starting Evince by giving a document as a target (e....
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Ubuntu 20 LTS, install evince via snap, but hyperlinks not correctly displayed in the pop-up window (the window is empty)
while I successfully installed evince, via snap for Ubuntu 16.04
(see Ubuntu 16.04, install evince via snap, but no service via dbus)
I run into a problem when I try to do the same for a friend using ...
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Ubuntu 16.04, install evince via snap, but no service via dbus
I am running 16.04 with evince GNOME Document Viewer 3.20.1
Now evince 4.X displays hyperlinks as pop-up windows, which is very useful for documents with equations.
I installed evince 4.4 via snap
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evince opens pdf in "presentation mode"
when opening a particular pdf file, evince decides to open it in "presentation mode".
I see in the man page that evince has -s option to open in presentation mode, but I did not invoke it. I ...
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How to use evince to open PDF accessed through remote ssh?
It is extremely likely this question comes from a major misunderstanding, but I will explain what I am trying to do/have done. I am also not fully sure this is a Linux/Unix issue.
My goal is to view a ...
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Open tex file corresponding to an opened pdf file
Suppose I have opened a pdf file (say /path/to/my/file.pdf generated from LaTeX) in evince and want to open the corresponding LaTeX source file (/path/to/my/file.tex) in my emacs editor, I click on ...
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evince does not show font names in PDF files anymore
$ pacman -Q evince
evince 41.4-1
Evince does not show font names in PDF files anymore. They look alright, they seem to be embedded normally and the font tab says as much (see screenshot, although it ...
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evince is slow to open
Ever since I updated debian, evince has been slow to startup - it takes about half a minute. Once it is open, it works fine, its just slow to open. It never used to take that long - it just used to ...
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Evince is displaying correctly but is printing incorrectly
I was given a structural engineering PDF document with some yellow highlighted text which displays correctly in Evince like this:
But when I try to print that same page it shows the yellow, but not ...
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Resize sidebar in document viewer (PDF file)
I an unable to find a way of resizing the document viewer sidebar while viewing PDF file on Ubuntu.
Is there a way?
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How do I profile a real world application?
I run Debian 10 and since two weeks or so the PDF reader Atril (a fork of Evince) takes 25 seconds to start. Previously it started almost instantly. Now I'm trying to find out what causes the delay. I ...
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How do I clear Evince's "recent documents" list?
It seems that the most recent Evince release don't allow you to clear all the "recent documents" list by GUI.
That list shows up when you open Evince without giving it a document to open.
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