Re: xdvi refresh

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Tue 14 Jan 2020 at 20:16:17 (+0000), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Debian 10 (Buster), running latex does not cause refresh of xdvi,
> as I seem to recall that it does on Debian 8 and 9.  Instead, I must
> click on the screen for refresh.
> 
> Having read the xdvi man page, I think this could be corrected by
> invoking:
> 
> xdvi -watchfile 1 <filename.tex> &
> 
> when starting xdvi; but that was not necessary on either Jessie or
> Stretch.
> 
> Working as much as possible from the keyboard, I find the necessity of
> reaching for the rodent a significant nuisance.
> 
> Has something changed?

Have you tried either of Ctrl-r or R?

Cheers,
David.