[Pkg-gnome-extras-maintainers] Bug#1128284: Bug #1128284: SyncTeX with Emacs/AUCTeX and Evince 49

[A mennucc]

Hi,

regarding the SyncTeX regression mentioned by Damien: I ran into the 
same problem after upgrading to Evince 49 (in Ubuntu 2604 LTS).

SyncTeX support is actually still usable. The problem is that Evince 49 
changed its D-Bus namespace from |org.gnome.evince |to |org.gnome.Evince 
|while AUCTeX still uses the lower-case |evince|name.

I am using AUCTeX 13.2, and the attached small changes to 
|tex.el|restore both forward and inverse SyncTeX search:I rebuilt the 
AUCTeX package with this patch.

After installing it, both directions work for me with Evince 49 on 
Ubuntu 26.04:

  *

    Emacs/AUCTeX -> Evince: the PDF is brought to the corresponding
    position and the usual red SyncTeX highlight is displayed.

  *

    Evince -> Emacs: Ctrl-click in the PDF jumps to the corresponding
    source position.

Best regards,
Andrea

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diff -ur auctex-13.2/tex.el auctex-13.2~patched/tex.el
--- auctex-13.2/tex.el	2026-10-02 21:12:33.000000000 +0200
+++ auctex-13.2~patched/tex.el	2026-10-02 21:00:32.274160623 +0200
@@ -1214,7 +1214,7 @@
 
 (defun TeX-evince-sync-view ()
   "Run `TeX-evince-sync-view-1', which see, set up for Evince."
-  (TeX-evince-sync-view-1 "gnome" "evince"))
+  (TeX-evince-sync-view-1 "gnome" "Evince"))
 
 (defun TeX-reader-sync-view ()
   "Run `TeX-evince-sync-view-1', which see, set up for Xreader."
@@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@
       ("dvips and gv" "%(o?)dvips %d -o && gv %f" ,(list "%(o?)dvips" "gv"))
       ("gv" "gv %o" "gv")
       ("xpdf" ("xpdf -remote %s -raise %o" (mode-io-correlate " %(outpage)")) "xpdf")
-      ("Evince" ,(TeX-view-program-select-evince "gnome" "evince") "evince")
+      ("Evince" TeX-evince-sync-view  "evince")
       ("Atril" ,(TeX-view-program-select-evince "mate" "atril") "atril")
       ("Xreader" ,(TeX-view-program-select-evince "x" "reader") "xreader")
       ("Okular" ("okular --unique %o" (mode-io-correlate "#src:%n%a")) "okular")
@@ -1861,7 +1861,7 @@
   (setq TeX-source-correlate-start-server-flag TeX-source-correlate-mode)
   ;; Register Emacs for the SyncSource DBUS signal emitted by
   ;; Evince-compatible viewers.
-  (dolist (de-app '(("gnome" "evince") ("mate" "atril") ("x" "reader")))
+  (dolist (de-app '(("gnome" "Evince") ("mate" "atril") ("x" "reader")))
     (when (TeX-evince-dbus-p (car de-app) (cadr de-app))
       (dbus-register-signal
        :session nil (format "/org/%s/%s/Window/0" (car de-app) (cadr de-app))