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Girafenaine
Hello,
I need to read a lot of pdf files (as I use my antiX 17.3.1 USB live at work). I use space fm-icewm. Evince seems OK, but… it doesn’t work well with my much liked mediterranean_dark theme. More precisely :
– there is no border on the evince window.
– there is no way to resize the window. That is the big issue. Others applications have borders (antix control centre, space file manager…) that I can grab with mouse pointer and resize, or at less can be resized (palemoon for example has no border but can be resized)
– buttons in the tools bar have too little spaceDo you know how I can resize a evince window ?
– with some magic trick
– by modifying the theme to add window border and/or grab button for resizing. I guess its the gtk_2.0 folder of the /usr/share/themes/mediterranean that I need to explore, but I don’t know which file and which parameter.I saw that adwaita dark theme let evince to have window borders, and I can resize this window. But I like less the theme.
Girafenaine
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Girafenaine
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Antix 19 - Fluxbox - Live USB stick and frugal / MX 19 - Fluxbox - Dell XPS 7590
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What works here is a trick unveiled once by skidoo,
pressing the Alt-key and then the right mouse button together makes you able to rezise evince even with mediterranean_dark theme.Anonymous
1. Use the ‘trick’.
2. Try another theme.
3. Try another application.The original antixforum topic discussing Alt+drag resizing is here:
/working-with-windows-stuck-wide-open/
It mentions a few caveats ~~ the window manager may have been set to “Remember” the dimensions of a given window class; the application may have its own stored preferences, snapping to specified dimensions each time it is launched; the application (LibreOffice was mentioned) may try to trap keypresses & use its own “accelerator” key combinations…Girafenaine
Hello antiX folks,
Thanks for your quick answers.
The alt-middle click trick can be really useful, but for a laptop withtout buttons on the touchpad may not work. I will remember though.
Two other solutions :
– I tried atril, an evince fork. Seems as good as evince, with visible borders and resize ability, even with “my” dark themes (blackbird theme works perfectly, mediterranean-dark is less perfect but OK and can be resized as well). Note to developpers : is atril a good solution to be included in antiX, instead of evince ? I don’t know if there is some drawbacks, but it seems to be more robust to be well displayed with several themes.
– I can modify the dark-mediterranean theme by renaming gtk-3.0 folder in /usr/share/themes/MediterraneanDark (something like gtk-3.0_blocked, to be able to use it later if necessary). With this simple renaming, evince is displayed with borders and resizing ability… in light colors. Probably the same will occur with other gtk-3.0 applications, but most of what I use in antiX seem to be gtk-2.0 since they still appear under dark colors, according to my theme, even after renaming of this gtk-3.0 folder.
Girafenaine
Girafenaine
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Antix 19 - Fluxbox - Live USB stick and frugal / MX 19 - Fluxbox - Dell XPS 7590By renaming the gtk-3.0 folder nothing gets “repaired”.
All you get here is, OS can’t find the path to it anymore.
It might “repair” some apps, but it’ll “break” some others.
Check it with file archiver — that’s Gtk3 app.
Also, if you’re happy, then everythin’s fine.
No matter how terrible it might look.As of Atril vs. Evince, there was a discussion thread at Debian forum:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=135708The alt-middle click trick can be really useful, but for a laptop withtout buttons on the touchpad may not work.
is atril a good solution to be included in antiX, instead of evince ? I don’t know if there is some drawbacks
Maybe Zathura wouldn’t be all that bad option for antiX (instead of Evince).
It’s lean & mean, does its job pretty well and it’s very small and quick.
I never had a document which it couldn’t open. Perfect viewer.
PDF editing, LibreOffice Draw can also manage.For any serious work, one needs a serious SW, one way or the other — in that case, Evince will also be no real help.
anticapitalista
We also ship with mupdf
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