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
?

-- 
Germán Poo-Caamaño
http://calcifer.org/

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