From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs, gnome3 and synctex woes Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:51:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87mx3iac5i.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <3d7b390b-a758-4cb2-8f92-f72c868b8d27@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341211926 5637 80.91.229.3 (2 Jul 2012 06:52:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 06:52:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 02 08:52:06 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SlaUP-00064H-Dl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:52:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlaUO-0003k2-C3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44833) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlaUI-0003jK-CK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlaUF-0005LF-MP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41662) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlaUF-0005Ku-GM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:51:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SlaUB-0005iU-Dc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:51:51 +0200 Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:51:51 +0200 Original-Received: from tassilo by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:51:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UFAHm7g8dtswYW304AAm6NIxdI4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85612 Archived-At: paaguti writes: Hi! > this is my first message to the group. I'm a more or less experienced > Emacs user (15 years of emacsing on by back ;-) ). Same goes for Linux > (maybe 10 years, 4 distros). I have settled down with the latest > Ubuntu to write my PhD thesis. Some time ago, I found and modified a > Python script on the Web to connect evince, synctex and emacs. I > worked nicely with Gnome 2.4 and when I clicked on a point in my pdf, > I was able to go back to the LaTEX source and edit it woth emacs. When > evince was in full-screen mode, emacs popped up over it. > > Now, with gnome3, this doesn't happen anymore. Is there any new > function in emacs to raise the window to the front when in GNOME 3? Are you using AUCTeX for editing your LaTeX files? If so, what version? The current AUCTeX CVS version has built-in support for forward/backward search with Evince via DBUS. I use it daily, and it works fine. You might want to give it a try and drop the python-scripted solution. Bye, Tassilo