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My friend experiences this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/875359
But most of the time zoom is activated unintentionally when using two-fingers scrolling on a Synaptics touchpad. Can I disable this zoom feature?

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Looks like it's as simple as evince --disable-gestures. But check your version to be 3.2.1-0ubuntu2+ :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/873866

If you want this to affect at opening files from file manager, you need to edit evince.desktop. Here is a one-line fix: $ sudo sed -i 's/^Exec=evince %U$/Exec=evince %U --disable-gestures/' /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop

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Is there a way to set evince to adopt this behavior whenever it runs? In other words, if I set evince as my default PDF reader, how can I make it disable gestures whenever it opens a file? – Mandy Mar 26 '12 at 1:01
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I think editing .desktop file will be enough. I will add sed command in a minute. – int_ua Mar 26 '12 at 7:59

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