Ubuntu – Evince is no longer auto-reloading documents. How to troubleshoot this

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Evince (the pdf viewer) used to reload my .pdf files after I compiled them in LaTeX. However, this behavior has recently stopped to the point where I have to manually reload Evince (control + R) to show changes. I have tried resetting the desktop environment (i.e. reboot) but this doesn't help.

Any ideas on how I can go about troubleshooting this? My Googling has given me the vague awareness that Evince depends on other services (inotify?) for this feature, but I am not sure how I can go about diagnosing what the problem is precisely.

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Luis' suggestion worked. I used the following command:

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p

as suggested by the question he linked to, which was addressing Dropbox syncing.

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Below are before and after images.

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