The gnome document viewer, evince, is able to preview dvi files.  Double-clicking on a dvi icon brings up the viewer and it runs the necessary TeX programs to generate the fonts it needs.

xdvipdfmx does not have xdvi either; it's XeTeX-aware dvi to pdf converter.

So, it has been superseded.



On 07/05/2012 09:28 AM, Alec T. Habig wrote:
> If I had to guess, people probably are previewing the .ps/.pdf rather
> than the intermediary step, now that the viewers for those are pretty
> quick and standard.  I certainly haven't used xdvi in years (although
> it's nice to know it's still there).
>