On Sun 16 Sep 2018 at 20:15:16 (+0000), Glenn English wrote: > Thanks to the answers and suggestions to my plea, I may have figured > out what's happening with SyncTeX scribbling on my monitor. > > It was suggested that 'texlive-extra-utils' is where synctex comes > from, but that's not installed here. So more than one package must > bring it in as a dependency or something.
Not running a DE myself, I would think that it's likely caused by some script that gets installed as part of your DE rather than a dependency. I'm assuming that that's what DEs do. > Here, I'm pretty sure, it's Evince. > > I have a Python script running that tells me every hour to get up from > the keyboard and get a little exercise. That script runs Evince to > display pdfs of the notices. When I kill the script, the garbage no > longer appears. And other Python scripts don't do that stuff. > > The problem now is that those notices are good for me. I've looked for > other pdf viewers, but there's nothing in the repositories anywhere as > nice as Evince for taking up the entire screen and enlarging a pdf. > > Anybody know of a civilized, bug-free pdf viewer? (will display full > screen with no or thin borders, allows for manipulating size and > position) I don't know about bug-free but I find xpdf works well. Because I use it as a viewer, not just for settling in for a reading session, I must have keystroke control rather than the mouse. I add a few things to the configuration, like: # Add some closer-spaced zoom factors bind 0 any zoomPercent(100) bind 1 any zoomPercent(120) bind 2 any zoomPercent(150) bind 3 any zoomPercent(200) bind 4 any zoomPercent(400) bind 5 any zoomPercent(600) bind 6 any zoomPercent(800) bind 7 any zoomPercent(1200) bind 8 any zoomPercent(1600) bind 9 any zoomPercent(2000) # Avoid tabbing around the buttons because it doesn't help # (pressing return doesn't enact the selected button). # Even when redefined to foo, it carries out its default # action after doing foo. So redefine as quit, since I # usually press tab accidentally when trying to quit. bind tab any quit The keystroke commands never worked in jessie but they've been fixed now though, as you can see, I don't like the new TAB binding (which wasn't in wheezy). I don't think it's as fast as evince with complex PDFs, perhaps because its redrawing strategy is not as good. Cheers, David.
