Rawhide woes: CUPS and xpdf

Horst von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Fri Apr 7 15:58:32 UTC 2006


Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Re: Presentations with xpdf. In Gnome, run "xpdf -fullscreen mumblefoo.pdf",
> > and get a window /with/ borders and menu etc, plus the taskbars aren't
> > hidden. In xfce the window at least fills the whole screen, but the
> > decorations remain. Also, acroread (AdobeReader_enu-7.0.5-1) [sorry for the
> > french] doesn't fill the screen in Gnome, but it does under xfce.

> You might be able to workaround the bug by doing something like:
> gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_fullscreen
> --type string "<Alt>F11"
> (all on one line)
> 
> and then pressing alt F11.

OK, will look into that.

> Also, evince might suit your needs better than xpdf.  It has a
> "Presentation mode" that you can get to by pressing F5, so you might
> give it a try and see if it does what you want.

evince has historically been less than adequate for LaTeX-generated
presentations (via beamer). Will try again.
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