On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 10:16 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, [ISO-8859-1] Germn Poo-Caamao wrote: > > > On Sat, 2018-07-21 at 18:02 -0500, Jason Crain wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 12:02:50PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > The per-file settings are stored as GVFS metadata. You can view > them > > > with `gio info file.pdf`. You can delete the settings with for > > > example > > > `gio set -t unset file.pdf metadata::evince::page`. I don't think > > > there's a simple way to unset them all at once, but you could > unset > > > any > > > that look problematic or create a script that unsets each one. > > > > The problematic ones could be: > > > > metadata::evince::window_height > > metadata::evince::window_width > > metadata::evince::window_x > > metadata::evince::window_y > > > > May you share the output of: > > > > $ gio info file.pdf | grep evince > > ? > > Thanks to both of you for your suggestions. Here is the output: > > metadata::evince::author: Atmel Corporation > metadata::evince::continuous: 1 > metadata::evince::dual-page: 0 > metadata::evince::dual-page-odd-left: 0 > metadata::evince::fullscreen: 1 > metadata::evince::inverted-colors: 0 > metadata::evince::page: 0 > metadata::evince::rotation: 0 > metadata::evince::sidebar_page: thumbnails > metadata::evince::sidebar_size: 256 > metadata::evince::sidebar_visibility: 1 > metadata::evince::sizing_mode: fit-width > metadata::evince::title: SAM D21E / SAM D21G / SAM D21J > metadata::evince::window_height: 968 > metadata::evince::window_maximized: 0 > metadata::evince::window_width: 1270 > metadata::evince::window_x: 5 > metadata::evince::window_y: 1029 > metadata::evince::zoom: 2 > > It's not obvious which one is causing the problem, although I'd guess > window_y. Anyway, I erased the following attributes: > > fullscreen, page, window_maximized, window_height, > window_width, window_x, and window_y, > > and now the file is displayed properly.
In which environment are you running Evince? Which version? -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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