Any way to control evince settings from the commandline? 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 attributes1 _before_ 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.

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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)