Suckless.org: software that sucks less

Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by lugu on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:44PM (#43132745)

It's been around ten years that my desktop barely changed except a few pixels thanks to dwm and dmenu. I am a bit exaggerating but I love the stability that minimalism brings. If only they could make a pdf viewer...

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by vq on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:55PM (#43132854)

Are you aware of Sioyek[0]? It's a PDF viewer with a fairly minimal UI and a focus on keyboard interaction.

[0]: https://sioyek.info

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by naasking on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:03PM (#43132925)

SumatraPDF: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader

No frills, super fast and small. Been using it on Windows for years.

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by evanjrowley on Saturday February 22, 2025 @10:48AM (#43140007)

I recently downloaded SumatraPDF to open a PDF on Windows XP. Glad they still host a release that works on it. :)

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by Koshkin on Saturday February 22, 2025 @08:40PM (#43145371)

Need wine (or something stronger) to run it on Linux.

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by SoftTalker on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:03PM (#43132924)

Thanks, I love finding little nuggets like this here.

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by BoingBoomTschak on Friday February 21, 2025 @07:52PM (#43134943)

Eh, it vendors an old version of mupdf. Very bad idea, considering that it's a C program/library handling a notoriously complex format often shared on the Internet.

Personally, I just use mupdf (which I sandbox through bubblewrap).

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by flubbergusto on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:20PM (#43133134)

Have any issues with mupdf? I find it suckless.

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by zamadatix on Friday February 21, 2025 @06:07PM (#43134212)

To the currently dead sibling comment by kjrfghslkdjfl (on the off chance they get to see this): mupdf is extremely cross platform. I felt that should have at least been mentioned before your comment reached being dead over that misunderstanding.

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by andrewflnr on Friday February 21, 2025 @10:09PM (#43135711)

That's, uh, not why the comment is dead.

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by fc417fc802 on Friday February 21, 2025 @09:57PM (#43135661)

Seconding this. It's my default choice for many file formats, not just pdf. However it doesn't support jpegxl so in those cases I use Okular (very much not minimal but quite usable).

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by Imustaskforhelp on Friday February 21, 2025 @11:06PM (#43136000)

Yes okular is just brilliant for PDFs i love okular

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Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less by homebrewer on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:22PM (#43133169)

zathura is close enough — it's very minimalistic and supports everything under the sun: pdf, djvu, comics, epub...

https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/

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