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and subject line Re: Bug#772942: evince: window tiling is broken
has caused the Debian Bug report #772942,
regarding evince: won't resize down even as far as half screen width on
1024x768 display
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Package: evince
Version: 3.14.1-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
post-jessie evince has become unusable for me since it won't resize down
to occupy only half the screen (leaving the other half to an editor!).
Somebody amid general UI vandalism has stopped its screen width being
horizontally shrinkable down to below the width of the toolbar, taking
2/3 of a display width, and which is full of large icons supplying no
functionality that keys don't supply plus large helpings of empty space.
Fortunately, qpdfview seems to fill its shoes. Until I found that at
the last gasp while working through all the possible replacements, I was
grimly contemplating compiling the oldstable version of evince. All I
need is a viewer that takes half a screen on 1024x768 and refreshes
itself when the PDF is updated, and on which the text portion can be
adjusted so the margins are at the sides of the viewer and that
positioning is remembered from page to page.
Not too much to ask, is it? Why do I have to change away from what was
a perfectly working evince pre-jessie?
Rerelease "oldevince", please!
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.17.0-betty (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii evince-common 3.14.1-2
ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-18
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.0-2.1
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1
ii libevdocument3-4 3.14.1-2
ii libevview3-3 3.14.1-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+b1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1
ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.14.1-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libsecret-1-0 0.18-1+b1
ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-5
ii shared-mime-info 1.3-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii dbus-x11 1.8.18-0+deb8u1
pn gvfs <none>
Versions of packages evince suggests:
pn nautilus <none>
ii poppler-data 0.4.7-1
ii unrar 1:5.2.7-0.1
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.29.92-1
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 at 12:09:09 +0100, Federico Bruni wrote:
I cannot move a PDF opened with Evince to the left or to the right.
I tried both dragging with the mouse and the shortcut Super + left/right arrows.
I've been experiencing this problem since almost a couple of weeks, IIRC.
Only Evince has this problem, other Gtk app like Gedit work fine.
According to the forwarded upstream bug report this was fixed in 3.29.1.
smcv
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