Attached is a small patch for texexec (perl version) and a minimalistic shell script. This allows texexec --autopdf --xpdf --pdf test.pdf It will use xpdf instead of acroread. This removes the need to press 'R' in xpdf, nothing else. It is mostly useful when running texexec from an editor Cheers, Taco #!/usr/bin/env sh screen xpdf -remote TeXExec $* &