xpdf for 20.10?

Bret Busby bret at busby.net
Tue Jul 6 21:11:35 UTC 2021


On 7/7/21 4:10 am, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 7/7/21 4:01 am, Chris Green wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 02:48:17PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
>>> At Tue, 06 Jul 2021 20:00:25 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not
>>> for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> hi,
>>>> Am Dienstag, den 06.07.2021, 13:48 -0400 schrieb Robert Heller:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How does one view a PDF file in 20.10?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> try evince (this is the pre-installed document viewer typically)...
>>>
>>> evince has a horrible UI...  I seriously hate it when programs decide 
>>> that
>>> they are NOT going to let me use *MY* window manager.  It is 
>>> obnoxious and
>>> patronizing.  Why do people write programs that way?  There is NEVER 
>>> a good
>>> reason to do that.
>>>
>> There's also atril which I think is the default xubuntu PDF viewer
>> now, instead of evince.
>>
> 
> I believe that atril is a MATE application - it is installed by default 
> in UbuntuMATE.
> 
> See https://mate-desktop.org/ -> applications (you need to scroll down 
> the homepage).
> 


You are correct, Chris - atril is the Xubuntu default PDF viewer.

At
https://docs.xubuntu.org/current/user/C/guide-default-apps.html
Xubuntu appears to use a number of MATE desktop environment 
applications, as default applications.

-- 
Bret Busby
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West Australia
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