Bug 460810 - evince x86_64 takes over screen displaying pdf ....
Summary: evince x86_64 takes over screen displaying pdf ....
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evince
Version: 20
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Marek Kašík
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-01 11:41 UTC by William A. Mahaffey III
Modified: 2015-06-30 00:32 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-06-30 00:32:29 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
technical pdf I downloaded from web to read .... (1.27 MB, application/pdf)
2008-09-01 11:41 UTC, William A. Mahaffey III
no flags Details
LaTeX source (112 bytes, text/x-tex)
2014-11-19 15:18 UTC, Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak
no flags Details
A2 landscape PDF (11.79 KB, application/pdf)
2014-11-19 15:20 UTC, Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak
no flags Details

Description William A. Mahaffey III 2008-09-01 11:41:15 UTC
Created attachment 315468 [details]
technical pdf I downloaded from web to read ....

Description of problem:evince mis-displays PDF file, uses whole screen (overlays *whole* desktop), I can't see wm-bar to exit app, must login remotely & kill the process


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):2.22.2-1.fc9


How reproducible: may be difficult, I tend to stay logged in for long periods (weeks) & this may be related. I attach a pdf which gave the symptom for me .... I invoked evince from the shell prompt & got the above symptom. When I went back & tried another pdf which worked OK, it now gives symptom as well ....


Steps to Reproduce: open attached pdf under evince from shell prompt from rxvt shell under gnome desktop. see if you see symptoms :-/ ....
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Comment 1 Kieran Clancy 2008-10-05 01:11:39 UTC
I am having a similar problem, but it seems to be related to the browser plugin in Firefox. That is, if I have previously opened a PDF in firefox (using the browser plugin through mozplugger), trying to open one outside of Firefox causes this problem.

Comment 2 William A. Mahaffey III 2008-10-05 22:42:39 UTC
FWIW, this happened to me w/o the PDF plugin for FireFox :-/ (still don't have it, AAMOF) ....

Comment 3 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2009-02-20 14:20:03 UTC
This is still present on Fedora 10, please update the Version: tag.

When using a dual-head setup, evince even spans _both_ monitors, which is _very_ ugly.

Comment 4 D. Hugh Redelmeier 2009-04-04 04:12:31 UTC
I don't think that the original report involved firefox.

The reports involving firefox probably are instances of this problem:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456475
In particular, see my comment #7 that explains how multiple evince invocations behave.

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Comment 6 D. Hugh Redelmeier 2009-06-10 05:48:14 UTC
This bug is still in Fedora 10.

How can I change this report to apply to 10?

Comment 7 D. Hugh Redelmeier 2009-06-10 05:54:27 UTC
Sorry, I was confused.  It is this bug (probably related) that still exists in Fedora 10: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456475

Since that one was reported against 10, there is no problem closing this bug as WONTFIX.

Comment 8 William A. Mahaffey III 2009-06-13 22:09:50 UTC
This is *NOT* related to firefox, it happens when evince is invoked from the CLI directly, no firefox involved. Close it if you like, but don't confuse this w/ the above mentioned firefox/evince bug :-) ....

Comment 9 William A. Mahaffey III 2009-06-13 22:12:30 UTC
I just upgraded to FC11 64-bit this A.M., & this new evince does *NOT* show this buggy behavior :-). I guess you got this one after all, well done.

Comment 10 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2009-06-18 09:35:18 UTC
I still quite often (but not always) see this bug in F11/x86_64 (evince-2.26.1-1.fc11.x86_64). When clicking to a PDF link from Galeon, it sometimes displays the window spanning over both of my screens. This sometimes happens even when displaying a PDF from the command line.

Evince probably tries to remember the mode in which it has been previously run, and maybe a per-PDF-file window dimensions, so when running it in fullscreen mode and exiting it, the new document then opens in the browser also in fullscreen mode. But even the fullscreen mode is sometimes handled incorrectly - for example, when I have previously opened a landscape-oriented PDF presentation, exited evince, and clicked to the portrait-oriented PDF from the browser, evince then comes up in the fullscreen mode (w/o WM decorations, and with "leave fullscreen mode" button), but covering only 2/3 of horizontal space
of the screen.

I still do not see a clear pattern here, but the problem is definitely present in F11 as well. William, can you double-check that the problem is really gone on your side?

Comment 11 William A. Mahaffey III 2009-06-18 13:46:39 UTC
I only did a single spot check (from CLI on a PDF file shortly after install & reboot) & it worked AOK, definitely *NOT* a thorough & systematic check out, sorry :-(. I have installed & gotten used to using xpdf, so I don't use evince as much as I used to. Your description of its behavior definitely fits my recollections, so I would very comfortably defer to your observations.

Comment 13 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2009-11-20 07:56:40 UTC
Still present in F12 - sometimes it opens the window spanning both desktops so large that its decorations are not displayed.

evince-2.28.1-5.fc12.x86_64
poppler-0.12.1-3.fc12.x86_64

Please somebody change the Version: tag to Fedora 12, I don't have permissions to do this.

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Comment 15 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2010-10-07 09:48:20 UTC
Still present in F13:

evince-2.30.3-1.fc13.x86_64
poppler-0.12.4-5.fc13.x86_64

Comment 16 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2011-01-20 08:54:36 UTC
Still present in F14:

evince-2.32.0-3.fc14.x86_64
poppler-0.14.5-1.fc14.x86_64

Are there any plans to fix this?

Comment 17 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2012-06-18 10:23:32 UTC
Still present in F17:

evince-3.4.0-2.fc17.x86_64
poppler-0.18.4-3.fc17.x86_64

Are there any plans to fix this?

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Comment 22 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2013-08-06 13:27:34 UTC
The bug is still present in F19, reopening.

evince-3.8.3-1.fc19.x86_64
poppler-0.22.1-4.fc19.x86_64

Comment 23 Marek Kašík 2014-11-19 14:14:18 UTC
The PDF has "/PageMode /FullScreen" in it which means that it should be shown fullscreen. Esc key allows me to quit the fullscreen mode.
I have F21 here and the evince doesn't span both monitors.

Since the original description actually agrees with PDF specifications I'm closing this.

Regards

Marek

Comment 24 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2014-11-19 15:17:53 UTC
Well it might be fixed in F21 (not yet released), but your NOTABUG is definitely wrong. I have just tried to open a random PDF found in my home directory (a schematics drawing with A2 paper size), and evince did indeed span both monitors and more, even though the document itsef was not marked fullscreen.

Unlike the PDF linked to this bug, my PDF is not displayed fullscreen, it has window decorations and everything, but the window is about twice as wide as a single screen and a bit higher than the screen height.

poppler-0.24.3-3.fc20.x86_64
evince-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64

I have probably discovered how to reproduce it: use the attached LaTeX source, or the attached PDF created from it with pdflatex. Save it, run "evince <filename>.pdf". On my F20 system, it opens the window about 3230x1200 pixels big. I have two monitors side by side, 1600x1200 each. Subtract the xfce panels (about 48 pixels high) and the window decorations, and the maximum window size used by any sane application should be about 1580x1140.

The interesting thing is, that after I close the evince window (keeping it at its original geometry) and open a new evince with the same PDF, the new window is about 1500x999, which fits the single monitor. Subsequently opening the same file again and again yields the same window size 1500x999.

So apparently only the first time the PDF (of the same geometry?) is opened, it spans more than one monitor sometimes.

Looking at strace of evince, it opens $HOME/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home and .../home-1755c155.log. I have tried to move these files to /tmp/, and after that the subsequent "evince <filename>.pdf" opens too big window again. So maybe it is something with gvfs caching and incorrectly guessing the window size the first time?

Should I reopen the bug or create a new one?

Comment 25 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2014-11-19 15:18:34 UTC
Created attachment 959039 [details]
LaTeX source

Comment 26 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2014-11-19 15:20:07 UTC
Created attachment 959040 [details]
A2 landscape PDF

Comment 27 Marek Kašík 2014-11-19 15:28:14 UTC
Hi,

I've reopened this one. I'll look at it tomorrow.

Thank you for the info

Marek

Comment 28 Marek Kašík 2014-11-24 14:32:18 UTC
Unfortunately I'm not able to reproduce this on F21 and I don't have a machine with F20 right now. I'll check it again if I'll get to a F20 machine.

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Comment 30 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2015-01-09 22:11:39 UTC
The problem described in comment #26 is still present on F20. Marek, did you manage to reproduce it?

Comment 31 Marek Kašík 2015-01-12 14:04:40 UTC
Hi,

I've tried to reproduce it today but unsuccessfully. Which icon does the window has in its upper right corner? Is it the one offering maximization of the window or restoration of its unmaximized size?

Comment 32 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2015-01-12 14:14:33 UTC
Well, I use sawfish as my window manager, and it has the same icons both for maximized and normal windows :-)

However, when I click on the leftmost window decorations button, I get the pull-down menu with window options, and the second option reads "Unmaximize" (which only maximized windows have, other windows have "Maximize" here).

So I would guess the evince window is created with the "maximized" attribute in WM_HINTS or somewhere.

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