Package: zathura
Version: 2026.10.4-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Smooth scrolling in zathura (on X11) acts funny:
- vertical scrolling (two fingers moving left/right on a touchpad)
isn't smooth, page jumps by several pixels on every little finger
movement
- horizontal scrolling behaves the same
- diagonal scrolling is perfectly smooth, page scrolls smoothly
Similar behaviour can be observed when zooming - two finger scroll while
holding Ctrl:
- scrolling vertically isn't smooth, zoom jumps by several levels
- scrolling diagonally results in smooth zoom adjustments
This definitely worked before, so I tested a few older versions from
snapshot.debian.org:
good:
# dpkg -l | grep zathura
ii libgirara5:amd64 2026.02.04-2
amd64 common components for zathura and
its plugins (shared libraries)
ii zathura 2026.05.20-1
amd64 document viewer with a
minimalistic interface
ii zathura-cb:amd64 2026.05.10-1
amd64 comic book archive support for
zathura
ii zathura-djvu:amd64 2026.05.10-1
amd64 DjVu support for zathura
ii zathura-pdf-poppler:amd64 2026.05.10-1
amd64 PDF support for zathura
ii zathura-ps:amd64 2026.02.03-1
amd64 PostScript support for zathura
bad:
# dpkg -l | grep zathura
ii libgirara5:amd64 2026.07.07-1
amd64 common components for zathura and
its plugins (shared libraries)
ii zathura 2026.07.02-3
amd64 document viewer with a
minimalistic interface
ii zathura-cb:amd64
2026.05.10-1+b1 amd64 comic book archive
support for zathura
ii zathura-djvu:amd64
2026.05.10-1+b1 amd64 DjVu support for
zathura
ii zathura-pdf-poppler:amd64
2026.05.10-1+b1 amd64 PDF support for
zathura
ii zathura-ps:amd64
2026.02.03-1+b1 amd64 PostScript support
for zathura
bad:
# dpkg -l | grep zathura
ii libgirara5:amd64 2026.07.18-1
amd64 common components for zathura and
its plugins (shared libraries)
ii zathura 2026.10.4-1
amd64 document viewer with a
minimalistic interface
ii zathura-cb:amd64 2026.07.18-1
amd64 comic book archive support for
zathura
ii zathura-djvu:amd64 2026.07.18-1
amd64 DjVu support for zathura
ii zathura-pdf-poppler:amd64 2026.07.18-1
amd64 PDF support for zathura
ii zathura-ps:amd64 2026.07.18-1
amd64 PostScript support for zathura
There were some fixes upstream between 2026.07.18 and 2026.10.4 but some
of that code is in libgirara and that's not yet updated in Debian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'testing'), (500,
'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'),
(1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.18.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages zathura depends on:
ii libc6 2.43-6
ii libcairo2 1.18.4-3+b1
ii libgirara5 2026.07.18-1
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.90.0-1
ii libgraphene-1.0-0 1.10.8-5+b2
ii libgtk-4-1 4.22.4+ds-1
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.10.8+ds-2+b1
ii libmagic1t64 1:5.47-4
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.58.0-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.58.0-1
ii libseccomp2 2.6.1-1+b1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.53.4-2
ii libsynctex2 2026.20260303.78225+ds-5
ii libxxhash0 0.8.3-2+b2
ii zathura-pdf-poppler 2026.07.18-1
zathura recommends no packages.
Versions of packages zathura suggests:
ii elinks [www-browser] 0.19.1-2.1+b1
ii firefox [www-browser] 157.0-1
ii luakit [www-browser] 1:2.4.0-1
ii lynx [www-browser] 2.9.3-2
ii vimb [www-browser] 4.0.0-1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3+git20230121-2.3
ii zathura-cb 2026.07.18-1
ii zathura-djvu 2026.07.18-1
ii zathura-ps 2026.07.18-1
-- no debconf information
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Tomáš "liskin" ("Pivník") Janoušek, https://lisk.in/
