Bug#475327: evince maps window with incorrect size

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: found -1 3.10.0-1

On 2008-04-09 22:43:05 -0400, Ivan Jager wrote:
> I'm having some trouble reproducing this, but here is what happened:
>  1. I clicked on a pdf in galeon, and let it open it with evince.
>  2. Evince popped up and got placed by the window manager (AFAICT)
>  3. Evince loaded the document, and resized itself, such that it's placement
>     was stupid. (a good chunk of it ended up on the other monitor)

I can reproduce this for documents that are opened for the first time
with evince. I use fvwm's ActivePlacement feature. The problem is that
evince doesn't provide the correct window size to the window manager
early enough. This is the same problem as with gnuplot-qt using the
qt terminal:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668956

> When I try to reproduce it, it now opens the window with it's previous
> geometry, and stays that way after loading the PDF.
> 
> After further experimentation, it seems that it uses the previous geometry
> for a document of the same page size (remembering multiple
> geometry -> page_size mappings) and only does the stupid resizing when it
> encounters a document with a new page size.

Actually evince (at least 3.10.0-1) seems to remember the filename,
not the page size, which is also stupid.

$ evince file1.pdf
[evince does the stupid resize (a)]

$ evince file1.pdf
[evince has remembered the window position for (a)]

$ cp file1.pdf foo.pdf
$ evince foo.pdf
[evince does the stupid resize (b)]

$ evince file2.pdf
[evince does the stupid resize (c)]

$ cp file2.pdf foo.pdf
$ evince foo.pdf
[evince uses the remembered window position for (b)]

This makes no sense, as the document is completely unrelated!

> Sorry, but I think xpdf does the right thing here...

Yes (trying evince since xpdf no longer works with newer fontconfig...).

-- 
Vincent Lefèvre <vincent at vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/>
100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/>
Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)