At some point, this bug stopped being an issue for me, but that was
several versions ago. In Ubuntu 14.04, I can confirm that I'm still
experiencing this bug.
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nd, years later, this bug persist.
It is clear that a higher priority needs to be applied, this is probably one of
the most annoying bugs I ever confronted...
Pease guys, someone fix this.
I'm running Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04 with Gnome 3.12.2 and the problem persist
when a third-party app
I got the same problem (under Natty) until I install this package :
libdconf0 (I'm used to install Ubuntu in command line then I add minimal
package set I need ...). Maybe you should try this, hoping it'll fix
your problem.
(Evince uses dconf to store its settings)
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This is the only reason why I can't use Evince... This bug is just too
annoying to endure, please give this a higher priority.
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It's a pity Evince still has these bugs after all these years, despite being
such a basic application.
It's unbelievable the window doesn't launch maximised when we want it, it's
unbelievable the absence of a Set default zoom option. Those are the basics,
honestly.
The problem with the window
The behavior changed in maverick. As someone told previously, you have
to explicitely save your setting in the File menu now. I think I've
heard it's fixed in the new evince we will get in Natty (I mean, no more
explicit save needed). I don't think this can be easily backported to
maverick.
You
I also can confirm this bug on Maverick.
The status of the ticket should be changed. Or have we to open new
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This bug reappeared in a fresh 10.10 installation. The symptoms are the same
as described earlier in the comments:
When opening a pdf, evince displays a small window with side pane and fit page
width. Resize the window, close the side pane, change zoom settings, whatever,
then close the
@Gábor: Same here. This can somehow be alleviated with Edit Save
Current Settings as Default (Ctrl-T). It doesn't work perfectly,
though. :(
I can't understand why evince keep reviving old bugs every new release.
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I'm scared to think that the fact that there's a menu item to Save
current settings as default might mean that it's actually intended as a
feature by design... Someone would need to check with upstream about
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Just got the update. Now thumbnails settings are kept (shown or hidden)
but it doesn't seem to work with the continuous mode. This mode is
always enabled by Evince even if I keep disabling it.
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I also got the update and it works perfectly for me. The continuous mode
settings are also retained as a per file setting, so it works for me.
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For me also continuous mode is saved per file, but I want it to be saved
globally. I don't like and don't want to use this mode, previously it
has always been a global setting.
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But the point of this bug report was, that the settings in evince were
not retained at all irrespective of per file or globally. If you want
the settings to be saved globally you should probably open a new bug.
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This bug was fixed in the package evince - 2.30.1-0ubuntu3
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* debian/apparmor-profile.abstraction: allow writes to removable media
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Lucid-updates Please!
This is really annoying!
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It would indeed be very nice if evince had just ANY method of being
configured. Not even a preferences dialog - a plain config file would
already be good enough, so one can set settings such as the above or
whether to store settings per-file in the first place. I would like
evince NOT TO save
And yes: That bug is very annoying
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May I ask whether this fix will be available in Lucid updates?
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There was a new upload to fix that regression now.
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There's another regression caused by the package: bug 578996 ; evince is
not able to open document with hash in their filenames as in:
blah_#blah.pdf .
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the update from the lucid-proposed package solved the problem for me.
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I executed the test case and the -proposed package solved for me.
Every file is reopened in the same size or %
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I executed the test case and the -proposed package work good.
Every window is reopened in the size or % previous closing.
Sorry for my bad english. :(
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I've installed a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 on Saturday and I'm facing this bug
too. It's really annoying...
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No need to say I'm affected on lucid too, please install
2.30.1-0ubuntu2 from lucid-proposed and say if it fixes this for you, or
wait for the update to be available.
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I installed 2.30.1-0ubuntu2 from lucid-proposed and if it fixed this bug
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No need to bash a simple user facing an annoying bug. I don't even know
what is lucid-proposed.
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Copied lucid-proposed to maverick.
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* add debian/patches/02_fix_dot_dir_creation.patch:
fix dot dir creation when launching evince directly (LP: #571725)
evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED;
@François: I wasn't bashing you, but you should just read the bug report
content before answering as it was written that something was done to fix it.
Sorry if it sounded aggressive, it wasn't on purpose :(
Also, as an advice for further contribution, to avoid unneeded mail traffic,
instead of
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+ evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu2) lucid-proposed; urgency=low
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+ fix dot dir creation when launching evince directly (LP: #571725)
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+ evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED;
I accepted 2.30.1-0ubuntu2 into lucid-proposed which fixes that
regression. Please test the updated version. Thank you!
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The fix works. However, the window still runs in medium size, and is
only resized to full size after a small but noticeable amount of time. I
believe the previous version did not have this behaviour, so this is a
regression. Presumably the settings are now loaded after the main window
is created,
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There's a regression due to the proposed package bug 571725
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** Also affects: evince (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: Low
Status: New
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Assignee: (unassigned) = Didier Roche (didrocks)
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There's a workaround, but it's another program - Okular.
In synaptic install Okular. Once Okular is open press F7 to turn off
the sidebar. Then go to Settings, Configure Okular, and remove the
check next to Show hints and info messages.
Next, in Nautilus right-click on any pdf. Click properties,
I take it back. In PDFs without a table of contents, the above works.
However, when there's a table of contents Okular shows it every time,
and doesn't save even on a per-file basis.
If anyone figures out a way to show nothing but the PDF itself please
let me know. I appreciate the work of those
This affects me too.
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Another metoo, worked in karmic until recently, failed in lucid, but:
- I don't use gnome, and I notice stderr has a message:
** (evince:5984): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for
org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name
'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name
- Karmic's
This bug seems to be fixed (or maybe working) on my amd64 ubuntu lucid
linx.
I have Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
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Spoke too soon...
The settings are retained when you close evince after opening a pdf
files.
If you open just evince and close it the settings are *not* retained
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I can confirm this behavior, too. What I find even more annoying is that
the Toolbar is on by default--and this setting doesn't stick even in
per-document settings, so I have to turn it off--with the mouse, no
less, because there's no darn shortcut for it (any possibility of making
one)--every
I can confirme this behavior in Lucid beta 1.
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Same problem here with lucid. On first opening any pdf, evince shows a
side pane with thumbnails and occupies a very small area of the screen.
If I close the side pane, then resize evince to something readable on my
monitor, then close evince, subsequent opening of ***the same*** pdf
does not
I have the same bug, since my upgrade to lynx from karmic.
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Precisions : evince saves settings per pdf, and has default as
unmaximized and with a side panel. The previous behaviour was much more
sensible. I tried to delete ~/.gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml, which
contains the per-pdf information, but it had no effect, even when
reloading gnome and killing
I think, this is the same as the upstream bug
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606090 and its possible
dupe https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607475. I saw the new
behavior with Evince 2.29.5 on Karmic and found it utterly annoying too.
Unfortunately, I haven't tested with the
Would it be difficult to add 'Preferences' to Evince as are in the Adobe
Reader? Nothing elaborate, just options to open with or without the
sidebar and in full screen, rather than minimized.
The small default Evince window is OK on a big monitor, but too small on
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so you do open this pdf, change the sidebar, close evince, open the same
pdf again and don't get the sidebar config you had?
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It always opens as on the screenshot. It defaults to an open sidebar
regardless of what it was set to on the last use, even with the same
PDF.
I have Acoread installed as well and it obeys the preferences.
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The occasional PDF does open maximized but I haven't found any reason
why. As an example, I received two PDF documents from a company related
to the same thing. One opens without the side bar and is in full mode
while the other opens with the side bar in compact mode.
I checked the Properties of
I just tried on 3 different pdf and that works correctly there, do you
have those documents on disk or opened from a browser or something which
use different temporary path every time you do open one?
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Most are saved to disk before opening, and some seem to retain their
settings for a while when opened from the drive, as opposed to directly
from Evince. Rebooting often causes Evince to 'forget' the settings that
were working correctly.
Opening a PDF from Firefox in Lucid always has the sidebar
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any
It happens every time I open any PDF document. In Karmic and previous
versions a PDF opened with the settings (page width, side pane or no
side pane) as the last document opened.
In Lucid, it always opens with the side pane and uses about a quarter of
the display. I can maximize and close the
did you interrupt the upgrade or something? does reinstalling evince fix
the issue? it works correctly on my install...
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It's a clean installation, not a upgrade. Evince was in yesterday's
updates and it was not interrupted, but there was no change in behavior.
I'll reboot in Lucid and see what's going on today. I do all my real
work in Karmic.
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