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Zathura

by pwmt

Minimalistic document viewer

Sandboxed Verified creator Zlib v2026.07.18

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About

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. Zathura makes it possible to completely view and navigate through documents without using a mouse.

Zathura can be extended to support multiple document formats using plugins. Other features include:

  • SyncTeX forward and backward synchronization support.
  • Quickmarks and bookmarks.
  • Automatic document reloading.

Permissions

Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.

  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • printing
    --socket=cups
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to your documents folder
    --filesystem=xdg-documents
  • access to your download folder
    --filesystem=xdg-download

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • fetches from downloads.sourceforge.net over unencrypted http: anyone on the path can swap the bytes (x2)
    source:insecure-url
  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.