Re: [evince] How can I erase evince's memory of a document's settings?
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/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ evince-list mailing list evince-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
Re: [evince] How can I erase evince's memory of a document's settings?
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. ___ evince-list mailing list evince-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
[evince] How can I erase evince's memory of a document's settings?
There's a PDF file I need to read quite often. Lately, opening it in evince hasn't worked. No window appears on the screen and no messages appear in the terminal window. The best I can describe it is that the behavior resembles what would happen if evince tried to open the document window completely outside the boundaries of my computer screen. All I can do is kill the program; there's no way to send it any input or do anything else. Nothing is wrong with the PDF file itself. When I make a copy of the file (or even create a hard-link to it with a different name), evince opens the copy (or the link) properly. I can only conclude that evince's memory of the settings in use during the last time I viewed the file has somehow gotten corrupted. 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. This is with evince version 3.28.2 under Fedora 28. What's the solution? Thanks, Alan Stern ___ evince-list mailing list evince-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
