ZATHURA(1)

NAME
zathura - a document viewer

SYNOPSIS

zathura [-e XID] [-c PATH] [-d PATH] [-p PATH] [-w PASSWORD] [-P NUMBER] [--fork] [-l LEVEL] [-s] [-x CMD] [--synctex-forward INPUT] [--synctex-pid PID] [-find STRING] <files>

DESCRIPTION

zathura displays the given files. If a single hyphen-minus (-) is given as file name, the content will be read from the standard input. If no files are given, an empty zathura instance launches.

OPTIONS

-e,--reparent=xid
    Reparents to window specified by xid

-c,--config-dir=path
    Path to the config directory

-d,--data-dir=path
    Path to the data directory

-p,--plugins-dir=path
    Path to the directory containing plugins

-w,--password=password
    The documents password. If multiple documents are opened at once, the password will be used for the first one and zathura will ask for the passwords of the remaining files if needed.

-P,--page=number
    Opens the document at the given page number. Pages are numbered starting with 1, and negative numbers indicate page numbers starting from the end of the document, -1 being the last page.

-f,--find=string
    Opens the document and searches for the given string.

-l,--log-level=level
    Set log level (debug, info, warning, error)

-x,--synctex-editor-command=command
    Set the synctex editor command. Overrides the synctex-editor-command setting.

--synctex-forward=input
    Jump to the given position. The switch expects the same format as specified for synctex's view -i. If no instance is running for the specified document, a new instance will be launched (only if --synctex-pid is not specified).

--synctex-pid=pid
    Instead of looking for an instance having the correct file opened, try only the instance with the given PID. Note that if the given PID does not have the correct file open or does not exist, no new instance will be spanned.

--mode=mode
    Start in a non-default mode

--fork
    Fork into background

--version
    Display version string and exit

--help
    Display help and exit

MOUSE AND KEY BINDINGS

General

J, PgDn
    Go to the next page

K, PgUp
    Go to the previous page

h, k, j, l
    Scroll to the left, down, up or right direction

Left, Down, Up, Right
    Scroll to the left, down, up or right direction

^t, ^d, ^u, ^y
    Scroll a half page left, down, up or right

t, ^f, ^b, space, <S-space>, y
    Scroll a full page left, down, up or right

gg, G, nG
    Goto to the first, the last or to the nth page

P   Snaps to the current page

H, L
    Goto top or bottom of the current page

^o, ^i
    Move backward and forward through the jump list

^j, ^k
    Bisect forward and backward between the last two jump points

^c, Escape
    Abort

a, s
    Adjust window in best-fit or width mode

/, ?
    Search for text

n, N
    Search for the next or previous result

o, O
    Open document

f   Follow links

F   Display link target

c   Copy link target into the clipboard

:   Enter command

r   Rotate by 90 degrees

^r  Recolor (grayscale and invert colors)

R   Reload document

Tab Show index and switch to Index mode

d   Toggle dual page view

D   Cycle opening column in dual page view

F5  Switch to presentation mode

F11 Switch to fullscreen mode

^m  Toggle inputbar

^n  Toggle statusbar

Escape
    Hide notification bar

+, -, =
    Zoom in, out or to the original size

zI, zO, z0
    Zoom in, out or to the original size

n=  Zoom to size n

mX  Set a quickmark to a letter or number X (may conflict with default action of X, e.g. 'O' or 'P')

'X  Goto quickmark saved at letter or number X

q   Quit

    Fullscreen mode

J, K
    Go to the next or previous page

space, <S-space>, <BackSpace>
    Scroll a full page down or up

gg, G, nG
    Goto to the first, the last or to the nth page

^c, Escape
    Abort

F11 Switch to normal mode

+, -, =
    Zoom in, out or to the original size

zI, zO, z0
    Zoom in, out or to the original size

n=  Zoom to size n

q   Quit

    Presentation mode

space, <S-space>, <BackSpace>
    Scroll a full page down or up

^c, Escape
    Abort

F5  Switch to normal mode

q   Quit

    Index mode

k, j
    Move to upper or lower entry

Up, Down
    Move to upper or lower entry

^u, ^d
    Scroll and move up or down by half a screen

l, Right, zo
    Expand entry

zO  Expand entry recursively

L, zR
    Expand all entries

h, Left, zc
    Collapse entry

zC  Collapse entry recursively

H, zM
    Collapse all entries

space, Return, ^j
    Select and open entry

gg, G
    Goto to the first or last entry

Tab, Escape, ^[, ^c
    Hide index and switch to normal mode

    Mouse bindings

Scroll
    Scroll up or down

^Scroll
    Zoom in or out

Drag Button2 (middle button drag)
    Pan the document

Button1 (left click)
    Follow link

Drag Button1
    Select text

Drag S-Button1
    Highlight region

Button3 (right click)
    Open popup menu to copy/save image (activates for images recognized by export command)

COMMANDS

bmark
    Save a bookmark.

bdelete
    Delete a bookmark.

blist
    List bookmarks.

bjump
    Jump to given bookmark.

jumplist
    Show recent jumps in jumplist (by default last 5). Optional argument specifies number of entries to show. Negative value "-N" shows all except the first "N" entries.

mark
    Set a quickmark.

delmarks
    Delete a quickmark. Abbreviation: delm.

close
    Close document.

quit
    Quit zathura. Abbreviation: q.

exec
    Execute an external command. $FILE expands to the current document path, $PAGE to the current page number, and $DBUS to the bus name of the D-Bus interface. Alias: ! (space is still needed after).

info
    Show document information.

open
    Open a document. Abbreviation: o.

offset
    Set page offset.

print
    Print document.

write(!)
    Save document (and force overwriting). Alias: save(!).

export
    Export attachments. First argument specifies the attachment identifier (use completion with Tab), second argument gives the target filename (relative to current working directory).

dump
    Write values, descriptions, etc. of all current settings to a file.

source
    Source a configuration file. It is possible to change the config directory by passing an argument.

hlsearch
    Highlight current search results.

nohlsearch
    Remove highlights of current search results. Abbreviation: nohl.

version
    Show version information.

CONFIGURATION

The default appearance and behaviour of zathura can be overwritten by modifying the zathurarc file (default path: ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc). For a detailed description please consult zathurarc(5).

SYNCTEX SUPPORT

Both synctex forward and backwards synchronization are supported by zathura, To enable synctex forward synchronization, please look at the --synctex-forward and --synctex-editor options. zathura will also emit a signal via the D-Bus interface. To support synctex backwards synchronization, zathura provides a D-Bus interface that can be called by the editor. For convince zathura also knows how to parse the output of the synctex view command. It is enough to pass the arguments to synctex view's -i option to zathura via --synctex-forward and zathura will pass the information to the correct instance.

For gvim forward and backwards synchronization support can be set up as follows: First add the following to the vim configuration:

    function! Synctex()
      execute "silent !zathura --synctex-forward " . line('.') . ":" . col('.') . ":" . bufname('%') . " " . g:syncpdf
      redraw!
    endfunction
    map <C-enter> :call Synctex()<cr>

Then launch zathura with

    zathura -x "gvim --servername vim -c \"let g:syncpdf='$1'\" --remote +%{line} %{input}" $file

Some editors support zathura as viewer out of the box:

•   LaTeXTools for SublimeText (<https://latextools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/available-viewers/#zathura>)

•   LaTeX for Atom (<https://atom.io/packages/latex>)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

ZATHURA_PLUGINS_PATH
    Path to the directory containing plugins. This directory is only considered if no other directory was specified using --plugins-dir.

SANDBOX

The zathura-sandbox binary runs zathura with a seccomp and/or landlock based sandbox enabled. Some features are disabled when using sandbox mode:

•   saving/writing files

•   use of input methods like ibus

•   printing

•   bookmarks and history

•   dbus integration

•   synctex support

    The sandbox mode is still experimental with some libc implementations. The current supported and tested libc implementations is glibc.

KNOWN BUGS

If GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS is enabled you will experience problems with large documents. In this case zathura might crash or pages cannot be rendered properly. Disabling GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS fixes this issue. The same issue may appear, if overlay-scrollbar is enabled in GTK_MODULES.

SEE ALSO

zathurarc(5)

Author
pwmt.org

Copyright
2009-2018, pwmt.org