presentation mode doesn't seem to work with two monitors

Bug #538418 reported by Darren Adams
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evince
Fix Released
Medium
evince (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

I have a dual-monitor setup, and it seems that evince doesn't seem to display PDF's correctly when you enter Presentation mode. In my case it shows half of the PDF on one screen and nothing on the other. This seemed different enough from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245206 to warrant a new bug report.

Steps to reproduce (you will need a multi-monitor configuration to test this)

1. Open a PDF using evince (such as https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/serverguide.pdf)

2. Enter Presentation mode by pressing F5

3. In my case, the half of the PDF appears in one screen, but nothing appears in the other.

What I was expecting:

1. The PDF document to be displayed across all screens

- or -

2. The PDF document to be displayed fully on one of the screens

Various other bits of information:

:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04

:~$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 2.29.92-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.29.92-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.29.92-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-intel:
  Installed: 2:2.9.1-1ubuntu13
  Candidate: 2:2.9.1-1ubuntu13
  Version table:
 *** 2:2.9.1-1ubuntu13 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for the report, looks like this was fixed already by : http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=0c3040ad65632ef58234bbbb68af8513e94307bc

Changed in evince:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 2.30.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
evince (2.30.0-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    Bug fixes:
    - Fix scale calculation on rotated monitors in presentation mode
    - Save current page when closing window in presentation mode
    - Fix rendering of documents with non uniform page size when in
      presentation mode
    - Use monitor height instead of screen height to calculate page
      scale in presentation mode (lp: #538418)
  * debian/patches/99_autoconf.patch:
    - new version update
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:43:41 +0200

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in evince:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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