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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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