zathura - Man Page

a document viewer

Examples (TL;DR)

tldr.sh

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

+, -, =

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

'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

l

Expand entry

L

Expand all entries

h

Collapse entry

H

Collapse all entries

space, Return

Select and open entry

Mouse bindings

Scroll

Scroll up or down

^Scroll

Zoom in or out

Hold Button2

Pan the document

Button1

Follow link

Hold Button1

Select text

Hold ^Button1

Highlight region

Commands

bmark

Save a bookmark

bdelete

Delete a bookmark

blist

List bookmarks

close

Close document

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

info

Show document information

open

Open a document

offset

Set page offset

print

Print document

write(!)

Save document (and force overwriting)

export

Export attachments

dump

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

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:

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.

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

Referenced By

pdfpc(1), zathurarc(5).

2024-05-01 0.5.6