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zathura is a minimalistic PDF viewer. zathura focuses on keyboard interaction with documents.

Zathura is a minimalistic PDF viewer developed by the pwmt community. Zathura focuses on keyboard interaction with documents.

Zathura is built with GTK+ and the giara library made by the same developers.

It is often compared to evince, the default Ubuntu PDF viewer.

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Integration of Emacs/LuaLaTeX with Evince/Zathura not working in Ubuntu 18.04. How can I fix it?

After my recent upgrade (per new install) to Ubuntu 18.04, I have started having quite some troubles with my tool chain (Emacs, Lualatex, Evince). I am using forward/backward search to approximate WYSIWYG LaTeX editing. Evince has started to crash…
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compton config for transparency in i3's tabbed/stacked mode

I am trying to: make some applications transparent using compton on i3wm such that in tabbed/ stacked mode in i3wm the underlying windows are hidden (or are not drawn). For example's sake, let us take the application to be zathura. I tried the…
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I wonder if evince document viewer have configuration file like zathura have zathurarc?

I use zathura as document viewer but they not provide highlight text option , or I not found any plugin for that. So I switched to evince but how I configure keybindings in evince actually I saw this question related to keybindings but they not…
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Zathura EPUB support issue : "Unknown file type: 'application/zip'"

The Arch wiki explains that Zathura needs the package zathura-pdf-mupdf for EPUB support. And this thread seems to confirm it works on Ubuntu too. So I have installed the package thanks to the PPA mentioned in the AskUbuntu post: $ dpkg -s…
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Change default pdf viewer in WSL2

I am using WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04 inside Windows 10. xdg-open currently opens something called gv: as the default pdf viewer. I would like to use zathura. I couldn't find any .desktop files in the WSL2 environment. How do I change the default viewer for…
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Changing how zathura-pdf-mupdf render epub files

I am transitioning from cool reader to zathura as my reader but I don't like how the epub was rendered. I can do some basic changes like the background and text color with my zathurarc file but it can not do much with regards to the rendering of the…
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Ubuntu WSL on Windows 10 and Zathura

I am trying to set up Zathura on Windows 10 by using Ubuntu as available from the Microsoft Store. I would like to use Zathura as my PDF viewer when writing with vim/vimtex, and am currently facing the issue: Unable to init server: Could not…
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Zathura: open same file only once

Before recently discovering about zathura I have been using evince. I have a script to build and open my resume and want to open it with zathura. How can I force zathura to only open it once? The command I am using in my script is zathura file.pdf &…
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WSL2 Windows, Zathura pdf viewer stops responding after letting pc sleep

The issue I am having is that after letting my pc go into sleep mode, zathura stops responding to any commands. I am using WSL2 with WSL version 2.2.4.0, zathura 0.4.9 pdf-poppler. I can add more details if needed. To recreate, I can open a pdf with…
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Zathura i3 Ubuntu

So I have zathura installed on Ubuntu 18.04 with i3-wm. Zathura works all well but every time I close zathura using the Mod+Shift+Q and then open the PDF next time it always starts from the first page, how do I make zathura to open the last previous…
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Creating A Simple Script to Resize Terminal and Open Zathura

I'm writing my first script (I just moved over to ubuntu to get vim, vimtex, zathura, etc. to start editing TeX documents offline and I'm having to learn everything on the fly) and I would like it to do the following: It should intake (as a…
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