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Is there any way to change / set evince settings either in a config file or from the command line when starting ?

I'm using inotifywait to display a PDF when it is copied to a specific file, and I want to be able to set zoom (fit to page), continuous scrolling off and dual (side-by-side mode).

I know that I can manually launch evince, set these values and save as default, but that only works if someone manually launches it first and does this right - I want to guarantee a certain display at launch time.

I don't think you can control those settings via cli options (I'd love to be proven wrong though...)

You could however set the zoom, dual mode etc via the file attributes¹before launching evince. You do that via gio set so e.g. if you run:

gio set myfile.pdf metadata::evince::continuous 0
gio set myfile.pdf metadata::evince::dual-page 1
gio set myfile.pdf metadata::evince::sizing_mode: fit-page

and then

evince myfile.pdf

it should open myfile.pdf in dual-mode, with continuous scrolling off and fit-to-page.

^{1: To see all the attributes run gio info myfile.pdf. Note this is rather new stuff - it replaces gvfs-info and respectively gvfs-set-attribute (which had similar syntax)}