On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 10:51:47AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 15 Jan 2020 at 08:00:50 (+0100), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > 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. > > I was put off suggesting this file because mine is headed by: > > !!! ~/.xdvirc, used by xdvi(1) to save user preferences. [...] > In addition, the "configuration" file appears to behave as a > history file as well, and I usually prefer not to use them > (eg I use .lesshst, but .bash_history is a largeish readonly > file.) Good points. > For these reasons, I thought .Xresources might be a better location. > (Untested, because I don't use xdvi nowadays. I keep a couple of > old DVIs around, one dating from 1990, as test files.) Yes, that looks like the best approach. The man page states that .xdvirc overrides X resources, so it seems advisable to keep an eye on that. Cheers -- t
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