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Re: SyncTeX?



On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 4:09 AM Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
>
> On 2018-09-16, Glenn English <ghe2001@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
> >
> >
>
>
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