I give presentations using Beamer, and last time I used it, Okular was the best viewer. But I recently upgraded to 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.1 and I have a problem:

Frequently I add auxiliary slides to my presentations: "click here for more info". That takes me to an appendix or something, so I go from, say, p. 19 to p. 45, and maybe then 46 and 47. Then I want to return to the previous page, or skip back a few (e.g. 47,46,45,19). I need a "back button" in presentation mode; ideally a keyboard shortcut, but a button on the presentation-mode menu thingy would be okay too.

All the "previous page" commands (button in menubar, keystrokes) listed in the Okular manual go to page #n-1, not the previous page in my history.

I had a keyboard shortcut configured with a previous version of Okular. It's gone now.

I could add a hyperlink to return to p. 19, but that gets awkward if there are, say, 3 entry points to the appendix (e.g. on pp. 19, 25, and 31).

Is there a "back" keyboard shortcut or button?

Thanks!

bwpearre wrote:Is there a "back" keyboard shortcut or button?

Yes, see http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdegraphi ... enugo.html

Thanks very much! But it turns out that it's easy to confuse. Seems it usually doesn't work. But with your pointer, I tried it more, and it did indeed do what I wanted to--once, on 21 -> 53 <- 21, so the desired behaviour is in there somewhere.

Then I tried doing 21 -> 53 -> 54 <- 53 <- 21, but got 21 -> 53 -> 54 <- 53 <- 52.

Now it is back to doing just page n-1.

Is this something that works with more recent versions of okular, or is it time to report a bug?

Thanks again!

bwpearre wrote:Is this something that works with more recent versions of okular, or is it time to report a bug?

Please report a bug at bugs.kde.org

lueck wrote:

bwpearre wrote:Is this something that works with more recent versions of okular, or is it time to report a bug?

Please report a bug at bugs.kde.org

8 years later I somehow came to the conclusion to post a bug for you
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428922