Re: [evince] evince has wide black border

[Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com>]

On 2015-09-29, jose aliste gmail com <jose aliste gmail com> wrote:
> Hey grant,
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Grant Edwards What is "it"?
> > The window manager not drawing normal title bar and borders around the
> > window?
> >
> > The inability to disable CSD?
>
> This is up to the maintainers of each application. Unfortunately for you,
> we cannot disable CSD (Headerbar) in Evince 3.16 or 3.18.

That's unfortunate.

> > The width of the black border?
> >
> > The color of the black border?
>
> These two are likely bugs, and not intended. The border in Evince
> should be around 1 px plus some shadows. In some systems the shadows
> look as thes ugly black border you are seeing. By using the .css you
> mentioned, you are working around these bugs.
>
> As you are using a more "traditional" desktop, the recomended thing
> is to use Atril from the Mate desktop. Atril started as a fork of
> evince 2.32 and has keep old Evince UI while also providing some of
> the improvements in newer version of Evince and even some
> improvements that cannot be found in evince (for instance, atril
> supports epub Books).

Thanks, I'll give atril a try.  It's too bad that CSD isn't something
that can be disabled to allow evince to work with old-school desktops
like other gtk-3 apps do.

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