Re: [evince] How can I erase evince's memory of a document's settings?

[Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org>]

On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 10:16 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, [ISO-8859-1] Germn Poo-Caamao wrote:
>
> > 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
> > ?
>
> Thanks to both of you for your suggestions.  Here is the output:
>
>   metadata::evince::author: Atmel Corporation
>   metadata::evince::continuous: 1
>   metadata::evince::dual-page: 0
>   metadata::evince::dual-page-odd-left: 0
>   metadata::evince::fullscreen: 1
>   metadata::evince::inverted-colors: 0
>   metadata::evince::page: 0
>   metadata::evince::rotation: 0
>   metadata::evince::sidebar_page: thumbnails
>   metadata::evince::sidebar_size: 256
>   metadata::evince::sidebar_visibility: 1
>   metadata::evince::sizing_mode: fit-width
>   metadata::evince::title: SAM D21E / SAM D21G / SAM D21J
>   metadata::evince::window_height: 968
>   metadata::evince::window_maximized: 0
>   metadata::evince::window_width: 1270
>   metadata::evince::window_x: 5
>   metadata::evince::window_y: 1029
>   metadata::evince::zoom: 2
>
> It's not obvious which one is causing the problem, although I'd guess
> window_y.  Anyway, I erased the following attributes:
>
>         fullscreen, page, window_maximized, window_height, 
>         window_width, window_x, and window_y,
>
> and now the file is displayed properly.

In which environment are you running Evince? Which version?

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

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