Okay, disregard. It seems a double-click is required rather than a single click, and it takes about 5 seconds for anything to happen. I was possibly clicking a different number of times between tests. Maybe I was more desperate when I launched with zathura explicitly. It seems to work the same both ways now.
- bug#52393: pdf links not clickable when zathura is launched via xdg-o... bdju
- bug#52393: pdf links not clickable when zathura is launched via ... bdju
- bug#52393: pdf links not clickable when zathura is launched ... bdju
