Disable Evince thumbnails preview sidebar (Side Pane)

Question

Evince places left sidebar widget which placeholder for index and thumbnails (they call it Side Pane). It can be easy closed by clicking on X GUI button or F9 keyboard button and this changes saved across document opening.

Index is useful feature, but thumbnails eat space and slowdown scrolling dramatically.

Is it possible hide side pane by default? Or better only in case when there are no index? enter image description here

Parto · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-13T18:28:44.783

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A workaround.

Open up any pdf and then manually close the sidebar.
Then go to Edit->Save current settings as Default or the keyboard combination Ctrl + T.

Now everytime you open any PDF, the sidepane will be hidden by default.
You can view it again by going to View->Side Pane or pressing F9.

Tested in Ubuntu 14.04, Evince 3.10.3

edited Oct 13 '14 at 18:28

answered Sep 29 '14 at 22:08

Parto

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I accept your answer, even if in future someone provide full solution. Thanks for support! – gavenkoa Sep 30 '14 at 13:03
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@antimirov Cool. Thats why we are here. – Parto Aug 10 '15 at 18:39

Disable Evince thumbnails preview sidebar (Side Pane)

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