Cannot un-maximize evince windows

erik · 2017-06-13 20:24:59

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue with the evince PDF viewer (a.k.a GNOME Document Viewer). It may affect other gnome 3 / CSD-style apps, I'm not sure. I can maximize the window using the button in the top right corner, but then cannot un-maximize it. Clicking the button again simply does nothing, and dragging the title bar just causes it to flicker but stay maximized.

It's not the end of the world, of course, but it's a bit of a nuisance especially since it remembers for which files I had the window maximized every time I re-open them. The only way I've found of fixing it was to use wmctrl to remove the maximize_vert/horz attributes, but that's hardly convenient. Anyway, if anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it.

For reference, I'm using the Arch Linux packages of XFCE 4.12 and evince version 3.24.

ToZ · 2017-06-13 22:15:27

Hello and welcome.

I can't replicate this issue on my Arch install with the same versions. Can you post back the results of the following command:

xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -lv

And also try with another user login to see if the issue isn't profile-specific.

erik · 2017-06-14 00:46:55

Sure,

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MountainDewManiac · 2017-06-17 17:03:39

Are you sure it's not "unmaximized" - but still sized the same? I was becoming annoyed one day because I was trying to do this to a window and the task was appearing not to work. Then I realized that, when I moved my mouse cursor to the edge of the screen, it changed to the "resize window" arrows. I was expecting the window to return to the last size that I had set it to, but I had forgotten that the app resized its own window to the screen size. Upon realizing this, of course, I manually resized the window and went on with my day.

IOW, it still - at first glance - appeared to be maximized... but it wasn't.

Regards,
MDM

sixsixfive · 2017-06-18 15:39:40

what happens if you use gtk3-nocsd(https://github.com/PCMan/gtk3-nocsd), also why not use Atril(https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril)? - MATE's evince fork

gbgustafson · 2017-06-18 16:51:06

Similar issue with evince 3.24.0. Symptoms are 100% cpu on core0 intel i5. Window invisible, but responds to maximize/minimize by flickering and then again invisible. The behavior was started by adding comments (sticky notes) to a PDF which originated from a LaTeX2e source passed through pdflatex (texlive package). The first several comments were entered in evince without incident. Then the evince window became invisible and 100% cpu. Tried to save the edited PDF, but nothing worked, no access to the GUI. Tried maximize/unmaximize, viewed the evince processes running 100% cpu in TOP. Killed the process and archlinux recovered. The install of 3.24.0 was through a system update, recently.

sixsixfive · 2017-06-18 17:14:09

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