Bug#515865: running evince foo.pdf from command line doesn't open new window

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: found -1 3.10.0-1

On 2009-03-23 16:46:07 -0500, Joseph Maher wrote:
> >Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 20:44 -0600, Joseph Maher a écrit :
> >>and then run it again, you don't get a second window, and your focus gets
> >>shifted to the first, even if it is on a completely different desktop...
> >
> >I think this is expected, as opening another window for the same
> >document is counterproductive. How do you think it should behave?
> 
> I preferred the original behaviour, opening a new window on the current
> desktop - I sometimes wish to look at different parts of the same document
> on different desktops...

Ditto. This also means that the -f (--fullscreen) option doesn't
work if the file is already open in evince somewhere.

The control of the behavior could be an option.

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