There's a PDF file I need to read quite often. Lately, opening it in evince hasn't worked. No window appears on the screen and no messages appear in the terminal window. The best I can describe it is that the behavior resembles what would happen if evince tried to open the document window completely outside the boundaries of my computer screen. All I can do is kill the program; there's no way to send it any input or do anything else.
Nothing is wrong with the PDF file itself. When I make a copy of the file (or even create a hard-link to it with a different name), evince opens the copy (or the link) properly. I can only conclude that evince's memory of the settings in use during the last time I viewed the file has somehow gotten corrupted. Therefore I would like to erase those settings and start fresh. The question is how to do so -- there doesn't appear to be any way. "gio remove" will get rid of the file's entry in the "Recent Documents" screen, but when I go ahead and open it again, evince behaves the same faulty way. This is with evince version 3.28.2 under Fedora 28. What's the solution? Thanks, Alan Stern _______________________________________________ evince-list mailing list evince-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list