Debian – Evince / document viwer keeps changing the print settings

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using Debian testing, Xfce v4.12 here. My preferred PDF viewer, evince (or "document viewer" under Ubuntu? Don't know) keeps changing my print settings, even when I tell it not to:

  • Open PDF, set number of pages per sheet to 2, print
  • ~/.config/evince/print-settings is changed to reflect that
  • next time I want to print one page per sheet I forget and document is printed with 2 pages per sheet
  • sigh and print again with my "standard settings"

Attempted remedies:

  • tried to make ~/.config/evince/print-settings read-only (chmod 444), to no avail, permissions are set to 644 after printing
  • chown'ed the file to root:root, but after next print it
    is reset to USER:GROUP. What's going on?

How do I prevent changes to this file, while still being able to use other settings every now and then?

Enno

Best Answer

I had the same problem and also setting ~/.config/evince/print-setting didn't work. However I solved the problem for me by setting the directory read only: chmod a-w ~/.config/evince. This may be have some sideeffects but I didn't observe any yet.

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