Evince steals focus when automatically reloading the document

I have a very similar use case.

Rather than a preference to disable auto-reload, I would like a preference to disable focus-stealing when the document change. I would even be happy if this was only accessible via gconf-editor.

For the record, I can't imagine any scenario where this focus-stealing is really useful. I think that at most, evince could just require attention -- I don't know the technical term for this, but this happens when a window icon bounces or blinks in the task bar.

I do agree with the previous comment: auto-load is a great feature and focus-stealing definitely not a good idea for evince...

Any feedback on this issue? A simple workaround to disable at least auto-reload (reload already has its own toolbar icon and its own keyboard shortcut) or auto-focus would help a lot.

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592821

The Bugzilla bug is closed without a comment. It seems that running Evince in presentation mode reloads the document without grabbing the focus. This work for me since I'm running Evince on my second display.

Bug is still up and running, annoying as ever.

Are there any known workarounds at all? This is a major annoyance when I'm writing papers.

For the time being, I am using Okular to view my LaTeX files. It also auto-reloads a file when the pdf is changed, but it doesn't steal focus. It also stays at the same position you were viewing the file at previously when it reloads (i.e. doesn't jump to the start of the document on each reload).

For me this issue seems to be fixed (Ubuntu 11.04), i.e. evince does auto-reload but it does not grab focus and the position within the document does not change. Is anyone still seeing this problem with the current version of Ubuntu?

@Henrik: Please do not change the status of a bug if you do not know what you are doing, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status for what "Triaged" means.

I know I shouldn't recommend this, but one can manually install the most recent evince version from natty (2.32.0-0ubuntu12.2) in maverick (get it here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+package/evince). Based on this dirty workaround, I can confirm that this issue does not appear anymore. Thanks, that saved me a lot of #*?/§;~.

I'm having the problem while running Natty, so I'm not sure about it being fixed in the Natty package. In particular, it steals focus if compiz focus stealing prevention is disabled, or if it's on a different X screen then compiz focus stealing protection must be at 'very high' or else it will steal focus.

The problem with re-opening on the first page of the document appears to be fixed now.

Indeed, I have to revoke my fix-confirmation. I didn't experience the focus stealing in the first hour after the update but then it occurred again. Now Evince sometime steals the focus and sometimes it politely stays in the background. Strange, I couldn't yet detect what causes which behavior.

Upstream bug was marked as a duplicate of #640441 which
was closed as the problem was transferred to
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/200

That report was closed 2018/05/28 as bug was no longer
reproducible.

As there have been no comments here on Launchpad for almost
eight years, can this bug report be closed too?

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Unable to reproduce with evince 3.28.4 and Ubuntu 18.04
Bug report won't expire due to bug watch
Issue was raised against old interface
As 13 users say they were affected closing as fixed in the new interface