Brian Swetland2d ago

Why in the world does Evince (the default PDF viewer on Ubuntu) not have a fullscreen mode that does away with the obnoxious client-side titlebar to let you actually maximize viewable area?

Or is this just me being punished for not using the default Window Manager or some weird Gnome Nonsense?

Yes, I know it hides the titlebar in "presentation mode", but it then also disables any zoom other than "full page", so that's just differently obnoxious.

edit: Atril appears to get the job done.

#sigh

Show threadAlistair Buxton

@swetland

Evince was forked to Atril for MATE and other "non-header-bar" desktops. You can disable the toolbar and then it won't show in fullscreen mode. It also won't show in windowed mode though.

Mar 24 at 9:34amWeb
Show threadBrian Swetland2d ago
@ali1234 I *just* found Atril, and yeah, that's perfect. 'T' toggles the toolbar, so easy enough to get it back briefly should I want or need it.
Show threadMarcus Müller2d ago
@swetland @ali1234 yeah, atril's been my default PDF viewer for a while. Still sad how bad the full-text search is implemented (you search different things, it seems to start a slow plain-text extraction for each letter you type), but that's the same engine as in evince.
I tried to like okular, but it's not happening. But unlike evince/atril, annotations do actually kind of work reliably, so do embedded videos, search, and bookmarks. It also doesn't forget my preferred zoom settings all the time
Show threadMarcus Müller2d ago
@swetland @ali1234 … even when I click "remember these settings as default". Something's really broken about atril.