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This is just a quick personal cheat sheet: treat its contents with caution!

Zathura

Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer with vi styled keybindings. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.

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Install

# emerge -a zathura

# pacman -S zathura

# apt install zathura

# yum install zathura

# dnf install zathura

Config

Create and fill zathurarc, e.g. invert colors of opened files: 

$ vi ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc
    > set recolor

Use

  • Reverse colors: 

    <Ctrl-r>

  • Create bookmark: 

    :bmark bookmark-name

  • Delete bookmark: 

    :bdelete bookmark-name

  • List bookmarks: 

    :blist bookmark-name
    Bookmarks, as well as some default file configuration, are located here: ~/.local/share/zathura.


  • Switch to 2 pages per row, and switch back to 1 page per row: 
    bd

Fit page(s) to the screen: 

a
or 
s

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