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NAME
zathura - a document viewer

SYNOPSIS
zathura [-e XID] [-c PATH] [-d PATH] [-p PATH] [-w PASSWORD] [-P NUM-
BER] [--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-edi-
tor-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 rec-
ognized 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 ar-
gument 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 docu-
ment 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/zathu-
rarc). For a detailed description please consult zathurarc(5).

SYNCTEX SUPPORT
Both synctex forward and backwards synchronization are supported by za-
thura, 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 synchro-
nization, 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/#za-
thura)

• 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 --plug-
ins-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.

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