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Bug 647138 - Commandline switches ignored when reusing existing evince instance
Commandline switches ignored when reusing existing evince instance
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-04-08 08:03 UTC by Luke Hutchison
Modified: 2011-04-30 11:43 UTC
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Description Luke Hutchison 2011-04-08 08:03:54 UTC 
If Evince is open and viewing a doc "file.pdf", then if you try to cause Evince to jump to a specific page by doing e.g. "evince -i 15 file.pdf", Evince ignores the "-i 15" param (same for -p).  However if Evince is not open initially, a new instance opens and correctly displays the 15th page.

This bug prevents "forward search" from working in LyX and similar if evince is already viewing the file.
Comment 1 Carlos Garcia Campos 2011-04-30 11:13:05 UTC 
What evince version are you using? it works for me with evince 3.0
Comment 2 Carlos Garcia Campos 2011-04-30 11:15:36 UTC 
hmm, sorry, I've realized it works with -p, but not with -i. Looking at it now.
Comment 3 Carlos Garcia Campos 2011-04-30 11:43:29 UTC 
Fixed in git master now. Thanks for reporting.