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I'm using evince to view my documents under Linux. One thing bothers me, however. It seems to magically remember the position and settings of the window for every document. I searched all over (the hidden directories in my home folder, system files, gconf) for where it might be saving those settings, but I can't find anything. Does anyone know where those settings are?
Amphetaman
Posted 2011-10-13T22:40:06.577
Reputation: 171
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The settings are stored under ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/, but this knowledge is of little use since you cannot do anything practical with the binary files therein.
To read or edit the per-document settings, use the following gvfs tools, passing them the path to the document of which you want the settings:
Reading: gvfs-info /path/to/file. Example line of output:
metadata::evince::n-copies: 5
Editing: gvfs-set-attribute /path/to/file metadata::evince::n-copies 1
Removing: gvfs-set-attribute /path/to/file -t unset metadata::evince::n-copies (credits to Christophe Drevet-Droguet for this one!)
Paths can be relative to the current dir.
L. Levrel
Posted 2011-10-13T22:40:06.577
Reputation: 336
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Things have changed since the previous answer was given (October 2011). The window settings of Evince are now being stored in binary, in the directory ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/.
Norbert
Posted 2011-10-13T22:40:06.577
Reputation: 89
These seem to be binary files. Any way of figuring out what the settings actually are? – Faheem Mitha – 2014-10-02T23:33:16.010
1@Faheem, see the new answer that was just posted. – Arjan – 2015-12-23T17:22:10.863
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The per document settings are stored in the file ~/.gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml.
lesmana
Posted 2011-10-13T22:40:06.577
Reputation: 14 930
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To reset all evince settings for a document: see http://askubuntu.com/a/819597/88086
– Christophe Drevet-Droguet – 2016-09-01T13:13:55.653@ChristopheDrevet-Droguet Thanks! Answer edited. – L. Levrel – 2016-09-01T20:03:06.927