GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 333851
Mouse useless in presentation mode
Last modified: 2006-03-17 19:02:54 UTC
Mouse clicks should go to next/previous page, mouse roller ditto. Other information: Without remote, non-keyboard control, evince is effectively useless for anything but small group presentations where you are near the keyboard. Remote presenters (USB-wireless, mouse with long cable, etc.) cannot be used to change pages.
I agree with the reporter. Kinda sucks not to be able to use a remote presenters. Raising Priority.
Well, that is the problem but what is the actual suggestion? Should we switch pages with mouse buttons or something else?
Yeah, for evince to be useful for presentations, we need to be able to switch pages using mouse-like devices (remote presenters, or even a plain old mouse), else we end up hoofing it back to the notebook to change slides, which is Not A Good Thing. Essentially, if evince would recognise the left click mouse event as a "Next Page" command, and right click as "previous page", things would work for us. Works that way in acrobat. Of course all this only in presentation mode (F5). Since evince is more or less the standard registered app for PDFs in Fedora (and possibly other distros), it would make it a whole lot more useful just being able to double click the PDF, have evince fire up, hit F5, and start to talk, mouse (or wireless presenter) in hand, while moving around.
That request have sense.
This feature seems to work Just Fine [tm] in Evince 0.5.2
Ups, forgot to check first. Really it was fixed during work on bug 170874 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170874 ***