Try matching DPI of your screen with your X settings. I do not experience this in KDE unless under VNC with mismatching DPI between the screen and what VNC-server thinks. Gnome under CentOS at works seems to behave same as KDE - pretty reasonably.
Tomas On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 22:27 -0700, Michael Barnes wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:48 AM Galen Seitz <gal...@seitzassoc.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > In the course of a typical day, I may open 20 or more pdf files. The > > files are typically datasheets, schematics, and other documentation, and > > they come from a variety of sources, so there is a mix of page sizes and > > orientations. When I open a pdf with evince, I have no idea how large > > the window is going to be. In many cases, the bottom of the window is > > well below the lower edge of my monitor, forcing me to manually shrink > > the window from one of the top corners, and then drag the window up. In > > other cases, typically schematics, the window may be centered on one of > > my monitors (dual monitor setup), but extend off the left and right > > edges of that monitor. Once again I have to manually resize the window > > in order to get it fully within the monitor. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this problem with evince? If so, do you > > have a solution to this window size problem? > > > > My system is CentOS 7 with xfce as the window manager. Evince is > > version 3.28.2. I have two 1920x1200 monitors connected. > > > > thanks, > > galen > > -- > > Galen Seitz > > gal...@seitzassoc.com > > > I run Linux Mint. I do not use Evince, but the generic document viewer that > came with Mint. I have the same issue. Different pdf files open > differently. Some open small, some larger than the screen, some have the > side pane open, some do not. Some I have to enlarge a bunch of times to be > able to read them. I have similar issues with the document viewer in > Windoze. I guess it is the nature of pdf files and the original document > and method of exporting to pdf. I, too, have hundreds of documents in pdf > and open some of them frequently. Most of them seem to remember how I > resized them when I reopen them, many of them return to the page I was > viewing when I last closed them. C'est la vie. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
