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Cravix

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Registered: 2011-08-24

Posts: 11

cannot add bookmark in evince

I'm using e17 DE now and have installed evince as well,
and I found I could not add bookmarks for pdf in evince...
that is, there's a "add bookmark" button to click, but it keeps grey and I cannot click it.
so any solution here? any idea is appreciated, and thanks in advance
(BTW, if there are other pdf reader which provide bookmark function too(except okular), please let me know
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update: i've test it under lxde, xfce and gnome, and it works well under gnome and xfce... don't know the cause

Last edited by Cravix (2012-06-11 10:51:16)

ConnorBehan

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Re: cannot add bookmark in evince

Not sure why it's greyed out. We had the same request awhile back and it seemed as though the selection was limited to the "vim-like" pdf readers.

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Cravix

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Registered: 2011-08-24

Posts: 11

Re: cannot add bookmark in evince

Not sure why it's greyed out. We had the same request awhile back and it seemed as though the selection was limited to the "vim-like" pdf readers.

maybe need other services loaded first? i've tried some de and found it worked fine under gnome, but didint't work under other DE... confused
vim-like one... i don't really get used to it= = sorry

Cravix

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Registered: 2011-08-24

Posts: 11

Re: cannot add bookmark in evince

so strange... i can even use the bookmark function under xfce. anyway, i'll test lxde as well.
--update: bookmark function doesn't work with lxde...

Last edited by Cravix (2012-06-11 10:49:30)

Damaskino

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Registered: 2018-03-21

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Re: cannot add bookmark in evince

I've had the same problem with evince using i3wm, and managed to solve it by installing gvfs.

Despite it's age this thread showed up 2nd in my Google results so I figured I'd answer it. Hope this is okay!

Last edited by Damaskino (2018-03-21 21:18:32)

Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: cannot add bookmark in evince

Welcome to the forums Damaskino

Please take the time to  familiarise yourself with the forums Code of Conduct, especially the section regarding old threads/necro-bumping.
If you'd read the pacman output when installing evince, the gvfs optional dependency would have been obvious.

Closing this old thread.

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