On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 4:09 AM Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > > 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
FWIW, I don't have this package installed. > > /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. > -- Boyan Penkov
