On 2018-09-16, Glenn English <ghe2...@gmail.com> 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.
> Here, I'm pretty sure, it's Evince. I would stab in the dark and guess 'gedit-plugins,' which pulls in /usr/lib/s390x-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/synctex.plugin /usr/lib/s390x-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/synctex/__init__.py /usr/lib/s390x-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/synctex/evince_dbus.py /usr/lib/s390x-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/synctex/synctex.py curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show gedit-plugins gedit-plugins contain a set of plugins for gedit, GNOME's text editor. . The following plugins are included: <sniperino> * SyncTeX: Synchronize between LaTeX and PDF with gedit and 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) > > -- > Glenn English > > -- “An oak is a tree. A rose is a flower. A deer is an animal. A sparrow is a bird. Russia is our fatherland. Death is inevitable.” Russian school book.
