A PDF Viewer With Vim Like Bindings And Configuration

Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.
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[@fsmoura]

Nice. I myself don't really need a pdf viewer. I just parse the postscript precursor files and have a set of custom Emacs macros emit a focused beam of electromagnetic waves into my brain's visual cortex such that it will induce visions of the correctly rendered curves, splines, shapes, etc.

[@bullpup1337]

Cool, is that on ELPA or do you have a git repo?

[@ordinarryalien]

Your comment is very human.

[@MsDuketown]

😂😂 Do you have dotfiles repo? Can you share your file-descriptors?

[@shutdowncnn6086]

Night (dark mode) setup as well! "Zathura is a highly customized, functional, fast pdf reader, focused on vim-like keyboard interactions. I use Zathura for reading pdf, postscript, and djvu, and Zathura is one of my main tools on every Linux distribution I use. One of the things I like about Zathura is inverting colors. This saves my eyes during the night, therefore I like to call it night mode. Inverting colors in Zathura is called recoloring, and is binded to Ctrl+r. This took some time before I found out. I like to key bind inverting colors to Ctrl+i, in ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc add: map recolor This will do the trick."

[@andreasbaumann6943]

Reminds me very much of 'mupdf', similar key bindings here. And equally minimal.

[@DarkusObscurius]

This is amazing, i was looking for something like this.

[@sprinklednights]

Great video! I personally only used zathura really as my PDF viewer, and I even believe it's a way better application than what the original authors of the PDF standard. Another perhaps interesting option to know is the sandbox option. Consider reading the man page.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

Zathura is a great piece of software, I use it daily with vim bindings. In Gentoo, you would install the zathura-meta package and at that point enable or disable use flags for cb (comic book), djvu, pdf and / or postscript support - the appropriate plug-ins are then pulled in automatically.

[@balmar3]

I have these in my zathurarc, make life much nicer: set scroll-full-overlap 0.3 set search-hadjust false set zoom-center true set recolor-keephue true set recolor

[@drzmuhammed]

thanks for this .... till now i only knew how to open , scroll and zoom pages 😅.

[@YannMetalhead]

Good video!

[@kevinklement2621]

I don't understand why Zathura is so popular. Its development has slowed to nil. If you want something fast and lightweight, both mupdf and llpp are faster and lighter. If you want features and customizable bindings, Sioyek is much better. Zathura also flickers when reloading much more than those three, which makes it less good for previewing, e.g., a LaTeX document during creation. Why do so many people prefer Zathura?

[@MsDuketown]

Why? Luke Smith's suckless build. But Latex with trof/grof/nrof etc. is a highly specific workflow that hardly found it's flows outside of the academia, aka the Pythonista. Even opsec doesn't use these workflows.

[@lukevideckis2260]

llpp seg faults when I open it (on arch)

[@theodorealenas3171]

Luke Smith 100%. For me at least.

[@miko007]

to be fair, what kind of ongoing development do you expect on a feature complete document viewer to start with?

[@MsDuketown]

@@miko007 it's about pdf, and I only expect broken .pdf's due to scanning algorithms. Regarding documents, Geany is fine for me. But even that is a BS discussion, judging based on the provided features. To be complete, during the editor wars, I first liked Atom and then Sublime. But I've never found a text editor that was satisfying.

[@iconoclastsc2]

I tried it a few weeks ago but it was buggy as hell. Hopefully it improves because I like the concept and want to use it.

[@docmalitt]

nice... thx... also under zathura keybindings were ranger keybindings (i do have them somewhere but... ok, i have to work on my filing skills because if it ain't in Calibre it well might be lost for me...)

[@MrVecheater]

Zathura has dual page layouts and a table of contents (tab key), too. I can't remember the binding for the former though

[@conceptrat]

Press ”d” for dual page toggle.

[@MrVecheater]

@@conceptrat thanks

[@conceptrat]

The ”info” command is one I'm always using.

[@tylerdean980]

Could you make a video on optimizing different OS'es running under KVM like BSD or Windows? Would love some more BSD content btw

[@anon_y_mousse]

I like the idea behind this. It reminds me of IrfanView. I just wish my image viewer of choice did something similar with plugin based file reading.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

IrfanView is awesome for what it does in such a small package. I'd love to see a native Linux version but I've never had an issue running it under WINE anyway.

[@anon_y_mousse]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 I kind of find it to be too hefty for my purposes. I usually use Viewnior because it's even lighter still and doesn't require WINE, but it can't handle .avif or .webp for which I sometimes have to use the browser. I'm thinking of writing my own.

[@chicpak3329]

Do you guys know there is a way on emacs to read epub files , the package name is nov.el . Hey DT please make a video about it

[@ryandls2592]

I'm suprised you dont use pdfview in emacs. It only really lacks but a presentation mode but im sure you could hack something together.

[@RiveeksSmooth]

I acknowledge that many great document viewer applications are there, but till now not a single one comes closer to SumatraPDF(only available for windows and it is FOSS), it supports both EPUB and PDFs. I know Xreader does the same but lacks annotations. And about calibre it is heavy and loads slower. Do you know any other options??

[@shengruizhang6476]

How about okura?

[@RiveeksSmooth]

@@shengruizhang6476okura or okular?? if you are talking about okular, it pulls a lot of dependencies and I mostly use GTK applications so QT apps are not themed, it is not like I can't but I feel like I use a lot less QT apps, and hence I prefer GTK ones

[@MsDuketown]

Adobe itself. Best app for pdf's since they own pdf. Look, I'm a FOSS die hard, but during these times of transition I allow one exception per file format. You need to remain practical and hands-on in today's complexity of Linux and F(L)OSS. The ISO-OSI model doesn't function anymore as it once did. Bygone times... And remember: ICT ain't IT.

[@RiveeksSmooth]

@@MsDuketowntrue, I am a foss fan too. We can certainly replace most apps but still FOSS apps need to grow even more. Sumatra PDF is a perfect reader works using wine, but that ain't convenient. And no one is working to port it to linux too

[@bullpup1337]

pdf is one of the instances where I still shell out money. Pdfstudio on linux, for windows foxit

[@cherubin7th]

I hate PDFs so much. It feels so computerphobic. (Zathura looks good indeed on my computer)

[@danielpicassomunoz2752]

Nah m8, pdf is for printing, epub is for reading

[@PeterKilian]

@@danielpicassomunoz2752 What is epub?

[@halfsourlizard9319]

​@@danielpicassomunoz2752printing lol how last century

[@Tanmaydeshpande-ne9gc]

Pdf is literally the greatest thing ever. Have you ever created a document and sent it to a windows user?

[@halfsourlizard9319]

@@Tanmaydeshpande-ne9gc literally couldn't care less about Windoze snoozers

[@thedeparted_one]

I still use xreader.

[@weedeater64]

Hey DT, have you seen Imagination for slideshows? How to create a slideshow with it would make a good video if you like it. I like that Ken Burns effect with multiple move made possible but I haven't done one, just saw it in the demo on their site.

[@conceptrat]

What's that book all about eh??!! 😂

[@alienmo6653]

Zathura is okay but i think sioyek is better

[@josephs1732]

Sioyek is way advanced than zathura.

[@halfsourlizard9319]

pdf2txt is way better

[@disabledresellerparttime]

@DT @DISTROTUBE When i try to set up Qtile DTOS or any version in you DTOS script it says failed to install packages from pkglists. What is the reason for this?

[@MsDuketown]

These computers hardly gain me anything, accept for income and work. I'm never going to update again. PDF viewing hardly changed since it's first release. Total insanity ro run behind Bigtech's never-ending greed and their (t)rolling corporate lust. I just installed Adobe and be done with it. Much more holistic for pdf's, and the app is including essential features for a "whole" pdf experience. I'd say consuming some fruits related to Adobe's first-movers benefits.