Ubuntu
evince package

  1. Bug #671565
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 671565

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PieroCampa (piero-campa) wrote :

Furthermore, as I try to visualize the pdf residing in the home of the <secondUser> from my primary user account, it fails anyway:

    > sudo evince ~<secondUser>/foo.pdf
    No protocol specified
    No protocol specified
    No protocol specified
    No protocol specified
    Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display:

I need to manually copy foo.pdf into my /home directory to be able to evince it.

NOTE: double-clicking directly on foo.dpf with my File Manager instead opens the file smoothly.