#1128284 evince: Hangs when hovering on a link

Package:
evince
Source:
evince
Description:
Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer
Submitter:
Nicolas Patrois
Date:
2026-02-20 13:39:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1128284#5
Date:
2026-02-17 12:37:06 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

evince hangs when I hover on a link since the last upgrade.
Clicking on the right cross does not kill it, I must xkill it.

Yours,
nicolas patrois

#1128284#10
Date:
2026-02-20 13:37:22 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Same observation here: evince hangs and must be killed everytime I hover on a
link since last upgrade (~Feb 17).
Several additional important regressions:
- navigation in the file has become painful: 'space' no longer works, page-up
page-down frequently freeze
- no longer keeps track of zoom factor when reopening a given file / opens most
files with a non satisfying one
- thumbnails are super small (I don't care but who knows...)
- no support for synctex anymore (apparently a motivated decision, but critical
feature for me as a happy user of emacs+auctex).

I wish I could go back to the previous version as this is really painful for my
work (I did with https://snapshot.debian.org/ without any success)

Should I open new bug-reports for the various regressions?
Any hope to keep a frozen version somewhere with synctex support, as long as
new evince/pages do not support it?

Thanks for your help and efforts,
Damien