Default Document Viewer and client side decorations

Waxolunist · 2016-08-31 05:48:11

On my bunsenlabs installation a lot of client side decorated applications are running, but I dislike that they don't fit the appealing and simple bunsenlabs / openbox theme, besides the different close buttons are irritating.

So I startet to search for alternatives for each of those applications. The first one to eliminate was the documente viewer / aka evince.

I've found mupdf and suggest it as the default application for bunsenlabs. It is faster, simpler, weighs less and is completely keyboard controllable.

The only caveat I've found so far, is that it does not ask for a password automatically. For that case, I wrote following script called from my desktop files:

#!/bin/bash

CMD="/usr/bin/mupdf $@"
OUTPUT=$($CMD 2>&1)

if [[ $? -ne 0 && $OUTPUT =~ ^.*error:\ Needs\ a\ password.*$ ]]; then
	PASSWORD=$(yad --title="Password for pdf" --text="Enter password for file <b>$1</b>:" --image="dialog-password" --entry --hide-text --center 2> /dev/null)
	/usr/bin/mupdf -p "$PASSWORD" "$@"
else
	/usr/bin/mupdf "$@"
fi

What do you mean?

brontosaurusrex · 2016-08-31 08:19:16

I have this in my postbang notes

atril is mate version of evince & engrampa is mate version of file-roller

There is also a thread where this stuff was discussed someplace.

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2016-08-31 08:20:53)

Waxolunist · 2016-08-31 10:41:28

the mate versions are probably really the way to go

okular is kdebased I think, so would not fit the current bunsenlabs setup, but it has some appealing features.

Waxolunist · 2016-08-31 10:43:29

when installing atril and engrampa is it save to uninstall evince and fileroller?

ohnonot · 2016-08-31 15:34:37

Waxolunist wrote:

a lot of client side decorated applications

i suppose this means gtk3.
isn't there a way to globally disable client side decorations?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-08-31 18:29:45

Waxolunist wrote:

when installing atril and engrampa is it save to uninstall evince and fileroller?

You can check what will happen by using the "-s" (for "simulate") flag:

aptitude purge -s evince fileroller

If `aptitude` starts asking you to make choices, <Ctrl>+c and leave them alone

Or see http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=104157

ozitraveller · 2016-08-31 21:34:29

atril comes with some mate theme dependencies: mate-desktop-common, mate-icon-theme. I use it it's much lighter than evince.

Sector11 · 2016-08-31 22:25:06

I'm testing Atril as I type ... nice program And the theme fits better than Evince

ozitraveller · 2016-09-01 04:02:38

I was using zathura, then it disppeared.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zathura

johnraff · 2016-09-01 05:03:12

Could this all be about the need to further tweak the BunsenLabs GTK3 theming?

ohnonot · 2016-09-01 06:08:17

^ as i said, isn't it possible to globally disable client-side deco in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini or some such?
not sure if it affects functionality, but if not, maybe that's the way to go for bunsenlabs?

qcgxr · 2016-09-01 13:38:50

Tried out both Atril and Engrampa. While both work well, seem light weight, and generally look better, Atril lacks the annotation/highlighting feature that was added to recent versions of Evince (it continues to confound me that the Linux world doesn't seem to need to annotate things, since almost not PDF viewer or ebook reader supports this feature...)

brontosaurusrex · 2016-09-01 17:55:41

@qcgxr: There is something in Atril (1.14.1), maybe Debian version is not there yet?, same thing in Debian (version 1.8.1).

http://blogs.perl.org/users/cyocum/2011 … vince.html

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2016-09-02 10:01:58)

martix · 2016-10-26 20:48:18

Hmm, I'm just wondering: If I open evince or mupdf, it shows the document but without menu-icons. How do I get access to the different features? I tried F1-F12, the menu-key, right-click, etc. somehow I cannot see the usual layout....

damo · 2016-10-26 20:56:32

martix wrote:

Hmm, I'm just wondering: If I open evince or mupdf, it shows the document but without menu-icons. How do I get access to the different features? I tried F1-F12, the menu-key, right-click, etc. somehow I cannot see the usual layout....

Have you tried different themes?

martix · 2016-10-26 21:09:12

@damo Thank you!
I had Faenza-Dark-Bunsen and just switched to something else: Now the menu is there on Evince!
For Atril I had the menu icons also with Faenza-Dark-Bunsen.

hhh · 2016-10-29 16:50:53

I'm going to wait till stretch is pending before I change any GTK3 theming, since GNOME is a clusterfuck.

if you use engrampa with thunar, don't forget to add bronto's extraction script for the extract here/create archive context menu entries...

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. … 79#p436779
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. … 10#p436810

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