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Re: xdvi refresh



On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 08:16:17PM +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> &

It should be, yes. Note that there is an X resource you can set
(.watchFile). Perhaps it was set in an earlier packaged version
of xdvi. Perhaps just your .xdvirc disappeared.

So try to put

  *watchFile: 1

in your ~/.xdvirc, perhaps it helps.

Cheers
-- t

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