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physicsshark

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Registered: 2014-04-19

Posts: 44

Some of Atril's Command Line Options Don't Work

I've been using some of the command line options for Atril (document viewer from the MATE project), and I couldn't get some of the command line options to work.

Application Options:
  -p, --page-label=PAGE           The page label of the document to display.                      # Doesn't work at all
  -i, --page-index=NUMBER         The page number of the document to display.                # Doesn't work at all
  -f, --fullscreen                Run atril in fullscreen mode                                                  # Doesn't work
  -s, --presentation              Run atril in presentation mode                                         # Yes, this works
  -w, --preview                   Run atril as a previewer                                                  # Yes, this works
  -l, --find=STRING               The word or phrase to find in the document                       # Doesn't work at all
  --display=DISPLAY               X display to use                                                          # Haven't tested this

The use case is with a desktop search engine called Recoll, which can jump to certain pages/give search terms to a PDF viewer.
At this point I'm suspecting it's a bug (in Atril), but I'm waiting to see if I'm the only one with these problems.

EDIT: Fullscreen doesn't work for me, either

Last edited by physicsshark (2015-06-30 23:05:59)

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Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: Some of Atril's Command Line Options Don't Work

I just tested --page-label and --fullscreen and neither of them worked for me. This does look like an Atril bug.