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So after 16.10 texmaker has been rather reluctant to cooperate with me and I'm forced to use gedit, not that I mind, I use gedit for everything else, but I miss some of texmakers features, in particular the "f1" compile and run. I'm looking for something along the lines: pdflatex tex | evince pdf. You can tell from the previous code example that I'm not very fluent with linux:). Also I did some search around and found this french guy making a script to get it to work, which is basically what I need, but I couldn't get it to work after copying the text (ofc after translation). Any help would be more than welcome!

Edit: a sort-of-fix is ofcourse to make an alias x=pdflatex *.tex;evince *.pdf &, which will compile and display any file in you current directory ending with .tex.

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There is a gedit plugin gedit-latex-plugin

sudo apt-get install gedit-latex-plugin

Use the external tool plugin to create access to envice.

  • To install the plugin, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins -> External Tools.
  • To configure the plugin, go to Tools -> Manage External Tools.... A dialog will appear and you can start adding tools.
  • To run tools, go to Tools -> External Tools or use (if applicable) associated shortcut keys.

The dialog then looks like this: External Tools Manager

Then you can start evince directly or write a shell script for all steps together and execute.

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  • I can't enable the plugin in gedit in Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins tab. When I try to enable it, it shows a red circle with a white horizontal line in the middle next to the plugin. Do you have any suggestions?
    – karel
    Commented Feb 7, 2017 at 9:06
  • @karel Ensure that you have rubber installed. It is used for automated document compiling.
    – aggsol
    Commented Feb 7, 2017 at 10:25
  • Now this is all well, but what is the default button for compiling and running evince? It doesn't say in the meny after installing it.
    – Thomas
    Commented Feb 7, 2017 at 14:54
  • @aggsol Would you be kind and provide me details on how to setup key bindings for the quick build? askubuntu.com/questions/880868/… describes the current problem after installing the package you provided. Thanks
    – Thomas
    Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 5:14
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    @aggsol Sorry for late respond! When I use the Build (CTRL F8) the only output I'm getting is : Running tool: build No Makefile found! Done. Why is this? I have a .tex file in the current directory.
    – Thomas
    Commented Mar 13, 2017 at 20:26

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