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Where does evince store its per-document state (position, etc)?

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Mar 15, 20269153 views
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I'm using evince to view my documents under Linux. One thing bothers me, however. It seems to magically remember the position and settings of the window for every document. I searched all over (the hidden directories in my home folder, system files, gconf) for where it might be saving those setting…

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The settings are stored under , but this knowledge is of little use since you cannot do anything practical with the binary files therein. To read or edit the per-document settings, use the following gvfs tools, passing them the path to the document …

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