zathura - a document viewer

Docbroke · 2016-05-26 06:38:17

jethronsun7 wrote:

I believe somehow more clear instructions should be mentioned?
At least it took me quite some time to figure out that installing one of the pdf plugin is required.

Well pacman output always shows optional dependancies with it's one line description, you can also check it with

 pacman -Si <pkg name>

or for installed pkgs

 pacman -Qi <pkg name>

++ the output of same commands also gives link to the source site of that package, where you can check documentation.

++ zathura also supports comic books with "zathura-cb" but it is not shown as optional dep, which needs to be added.

krobelus · 2016-07-15 09:18:19

[EDIT] works again after a recent update, :-)

automatic document reloading (when the file is modified) is not working for me

I dont get any change events when i use zathura -l debug

$ pacman -Qs zathura
local/zathura 0.3.6-2
Minimalistic document viewer
local/zathura-cb 0.1.5-3
Adds comic book support to zathura
local/zathura-djvu 0.2.5-2
DjVu support for Zathura
local/zathura-pdf-mupdf 0.3.0-2
PDF support for Zathura (MuPDF backen
local/zathura-ps 0.2.3-2
Adds ps support to zathura by using the libspectre library

Last edited by krobelus (2016-07-31 17:15:48)

sardina · 2016-08-06 11:18:43

I'd like to append the current document path (or a recent opened document path) from zathura to a file, so that I can create a list of favourites which can then be opened with tabbed + zathura in a successive session.

Do you know how can I do, or where to focus in the source code in order to create such a patch?

Also it would be great to manage this "document bookmarks" within zathura.

ralvez · 2016-10-14 18:00:39

@sardina,

I read a lot of technology books. I'm a software developer.
I have a directory in my /home called books.
To create fast access to the books I'm currently reading I do the following:
1. cd /home/my-user/books
2. ln -s path/to/my/book.pdf mybook

Then, when I want to read the book, I click on the book icon in Dolphin and I'm there. The next time I click on the same icon it will open in the last page I ware reading.

Hope this helps.

R.

Xelvet · 2016-10-20 21:24:19

Can somebody test and add this to AUR?
https://github.com/N8Fear/zathura-epub-mupdf

patrick.bucher · 2017-03-12 09:36:59

kapcak wrote:

Hello,
Im using zathura on x64 Arch and there is a problem with pdf files. Zathura ignore it! I try to open a pdf file via :open <Tab><Tab>, but Zathura doesnt autocomplete any pdf filename.(However, it autocomplete folders and any djvu filename, and if i write pdf filename correctly, Zathura will open it.) How can i fix that?

I have the same problem. It's really annoying. Especially because Zathura is the perfect document reader for me, except that one quirk...

contagious · 2017-03-14 10:46:49

mlq wrote:

Hello,
Stalafin wrote:
Is there a discrete (non-continuous) view at all?
Not yet, but we are working on it.
Best regards

Is it still down the road or is there a workaround?

Thanks

emacsomancer · 2017-05-05 19:54:54

I've got custom colours set for Zathura:

set recolor true
set recolor-lightcolor "#0a0a12"
set recolor-darkcolor "#ff9900"

But when I open a document containing scanned images, these images turn into solid-coloured squares. Any workaround for this? Or ability to quick-toggle custom colours off/on?

bokiscout · 2017-11-05 21:11:45

Zathura is not respecting the default-bg option.

My ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc:

# clipboard
set selection-clipboard clipboard
# colors
set default-bg "#29353b"

Zathura without any document loaded displays the background color as expected, but when I load a .pdf document it changes the background color to black.

Docbroke · 2018-01-05 07:29:10

I have recently moved from poppler to mupdf background for epub support, but I am not able to change background, foreground color and fonts for epub files. Settings in zathurarc seems to be ignored.

TomHu · 2018-01-16 11:15:58

Recently zathura (0.3.8-1) became horribly slow at loading files. That is both the case with mypdf and poppler. Loading a pdf now takes several seconds and reloading at latex rebuilds sometimes hang.

I have no notion whatsoever when this change occured. I’m on a thinkpad x240 and before zathura was blazingly fast.

With zathura 0.3.7-1 loading is faster and reloading is practically instant.

Last edited by TomHu (2018-01-16 11:30:58)

emacsomancer · 2018-06-29 02:18:12

I had the following in my .zathurarc config:

# map <C-l> feedkeys ":set recolor-lightcolor \#002b36<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#839496<Return>"
map @ feedkeys  ":set recolor-lightcolor \#0a0a12<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#ff9900<Return>" # amber on dark slate
map ! feedkeys  ":set recolor-lightcolor \#ffffff<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#000000<Return>" # original (black on white) 
map \# feedkeys ":set recolor-lightcolor \#000000<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#00B800<Return>" # green on black
map $ feedkeys  ":set recolor-lightcolor \#002b36<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#839496<Return>" # bluish (midnight mode)

Which allow me to quickly change colour schemes. Recent versions of zathura don't work with this. Does anyone know how I might amend these to work again?

emacsomancer · 2018-08-29 14:50:34

emacsomancer wrote:

I had the following in my .zathurarc config:

# map <C-l> feedkeys ":set recolor-lightcolor \#002b36<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#839496<Return>"
map @ feedkeys  ":set recolor-lightcolor \#0a0a12<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#ff9900<Return>" # amber on dark slate
map ! feedkeys  ":set recolor-lightcolor \#ffffff<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#000000<Return>" # original (black on white) 
map \# feedkeys ":set recolor-lightcolor \#000000<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#00B800<Return>" # green on black
map $ feedkeys  ":set recolor-lightcolor \#002b36<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#839496<Return>" # bluish (midnight mode)

Which allow me to quickly change colour schemes. Recent versions of zathura don't work with this. Does anyone know how I might amend these to work again?

Re: zathura feedkeys: this represents a regression in girara that has been fixed upstream. To get the fix now you could apply this fix to girara: https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/girara/commit … fe1ba24409 and rebuild, or just use the AUR girara-git package.

Quatro · 2019-03-04 12:16:11

I think there's another issue with it (still related to feedkeys)

map @ feedkeys ":set recolor-lightcolor \#0a0a12<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#ff9900<Return>"

(copied from above)

This gives the following error:

Not a valid command: :et`

The current upstream of girara has the fix mentioned above merged, so I'm guessing it's something else?

Last edited by Quatro (2019-03-04 12:17:17)

emacsomancer · 2020-10-25 18:18:09

Quatro wrote:

I think there's another issue with it (still related to feedkeys)
map @ feedkeys ":set recolor-lightcolor \#0a0a12<Return>:set recolor-darkcolor \#ff9900<Return>" 
(copied from above)
This gives the following error:
Not a valid command: :et` 
The current upstream of girara has the fix mentioned above merged, so I'm guessing it's something else?

Yeah, I don't have a good workaround for this (other than creating different configs and running different configs depending on what colour settings I want).

I've filled a bug upstream: https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura/-/issues/188

b42 · 2024-01-25 20:21:22

Solved it.

Last edited by b42 (2024-01-26 12:51:54)

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