Hi Gianluca,
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 09:56 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
I copied xdvi from an older distribution, but I get the same problem, i.e., the text appears but not the figures. So the problem may be somewhere else. I searched the web and found that this is not an uncommon issue as it occurred also in other distributions:
This suggests that ghostscript is your problem. Did you try copying that from an old system and putting it somewhere in your $PATH before the system ghostscript (on your updated system)?
If that doesn't help, I guess you are stuck with okular. As I think I said, it seems as fast as xdvi on my system. If yours is noticeably slower I wonder what strange things are happening on your system. (Assuming you aren't using some very old, slow computer.)
Cheers. Jim