Questions tagged [zathura]
A keyboard-friendly customizable document viewer with plugins for different document types.
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In Zathura, is it possible to correctly show a pdf with mixed page orientation?
Running Zathura 0.5.4, when opening a pdf that has mixed page orientation (some pages landscape, some portrait), Zathura will not correctly display the pages. It will stick with whatever the first ...
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Are there any way to restore closed tabs in okular pdf viewer?
I am on an Arch Linux machine and okular is probably the best pdf viewer, except just one lacking feature which is restoring tabs when you reopen Okular. Now since there is no default option for doing ...
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Open a new instance of a pdf file with zathura
I love zathura to read my PDF but there is an important feature I am missing. How can I open a copy on the current file (in another instance of zathura)? Thanks for your help! Update (solution): For ...
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How to enable reading PDF annotations in zathura
I'm using Zathura document viewer and I wanted to have some support for PDF annotations, I'm using the ZATHURA-PDF-MUPDF and as far as I know mypdf has support for PDF annotations, but yet Zathura ...
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zathura and ownership of files in /proc/PID
Yesterday, while writing an answer to How to get full path names of all opened pdf files (in zathura) - like rofi does, I noticed something weird about the ownership of files the /proc/PID/ directory ...
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How to get full path names of all opened pdf files (in zathura) - like rofi does
I am trying to get the full path of every PDF that I have opened in the zathura viewer. I know it is possible, since with rofi -show window, I can see the full path. I have tried running ps -p $(pgrep ...
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Make Zathura open by default a document with the window size
I want to configure my Zathura so that when I open a document automatically the size of the page of pdf adjusts to the size of the window. Practical example If i close the Zathura like this: When i ...
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Change executable path of a program
While I was trying to install mupdf backend for Zathura, I accidentally did pip install zathura (in user mode) as Meson build kept complaining about a missing dependency, and now the executable path ...
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Zathura goto real page number
Some PDFs include metadata about their pages as to the real page number. For instance C1 for the cover page and roman numerals for the preface. Zathura displays these just fine, but right now commands ...
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zathura - The not-so-lightweight pdf reader
Long time user of zathura since it really is 'lightweight' in that there are no extraneous features. However, I often find myself running out of memory due to having several pdf's open at once. From ...
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How to open pdf files inside a pane in tmux?
I am currently using Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome Desktop. My pdf app is zathura and currently using tmux. I was wondering is it possible to show pdf file in another pane in tmux?
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Best way to find/open files in Zathura
I like Zathura as a PDF reader quite a lot, but one feature I haven't found that I miss from other PDF readers is an easy way to open a file from within Zathura. The only way I know how to do this is ...
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Zathura synctex-editor-command cannot open some editors such as VS Code
The document reader Zathura supports synctex forward and backwards search when working with LaTeX documents. The backwards (from Zathura to the editor) search is set through the --synctex-editor-...
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Maximize zathura
How can I maximize zathura document viewer from the configuration? I've been looking at different resource files, but most people set the window height and width. I don't know why nobody maximizes it.
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Program launches before piped into [duplicate]
man -k . | fzf -e --tiebreak=begin | awk '{print $1}' | xargs man -Tpdf | zathura - # searches for a man page and then outputs it as pdf to zathura This command lets the user choose a man page, and ...
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