On Fri 19 Apr 2019 at 18:10:14 (-0500), rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On 2019.04.19 17:33, Étienne Mollier wrote: > ... > > It has this look and feel typical from monochrome X > > graphical interfaces released in the 80's. Tasty ! :) > > At least for diagnosing this problem, I would be interested in an > alternative to xdvi.
There are many. I see a2ps, advi, apsfilter, atril, dvi2ps, evince and okular. Not all these are viewers: eg, dvips converts to a PostScript file for other viewers to use, and I think evince runs a converter itself automatically. But it's interesting to see that you're (still) using a DVI workflow: any particular reason for this? I suspect a majority are using one of the direct-to-PDF workflows, like pdflatex or lualatex. > > another desktop environment. LXDE may, or may not, be to your > > taste. It is as light in weight as Xfce. > > I think my machine is sufficiently fast that "lightweight" is not a > concern. I simply cannot find my way around the gnome desktop -- I > wish to see launchers for everything all the time, and not just when I > run the cursor over the correct portion of the screen. The gnome > approach must appeal to the video gamer; but I use the computer for > serious work. With Debian releases 7 and 8, I have been running xfce. I can't help you there, as a DE non-user. > > The program may become heavy on CPU due to necessary redraws > > each time a window covers it. > > In the workspace I have Emacs, two instances of xdvi, xfce-4-terminal, > and xfce-dictionary. I am working on a ten-page text-only document > with LaTeX markup. I did not experience this problem with Debian 8. How do you deliver this document? As a DVI, PS of PDF? Is it typical, or are your other documents more dependent on particular methods of, say, including graphics? But looking at just emacs, xdvi, and xterm running in separate windows, I can't see any difference in their behaviour from what I remember in the dim and distant past. The one unusual (for me) property of xdvi is that it rereads the input file whenever its window is exposed, without needing a ^R keystroke. I have no idea whether this might interact with certain sorts of window manager. > > Are you running your Xfce desktop with or without the compositor ? > > I found the menu; ENABLE DISPLAY COMPOSITING was checked. I was > unaware of the "tweaks" menu. That's the sort of thing I can't interpret (as a DE non-user), but it could be related to the previous paragraph. (That's just a guess.) Cheers, David.