Each time okular reloads the file I'm reading, it disables the pgup pgdown keys until I click somewhere in the document.

When writing a LaTeX document recompiled fairly often, that gets tiring.

pgup and pgdown should never be disabled in my opinion.

Can this be fixed? I saw nothing relevant in the settings.

My setup:

Okular
Version 0.23.2
Using KDE Development Platform 4.14.14

running on current arch linux distro.

I only read pdf's and I'm running Plasma 5 but I don't see this nor do I remember it when running KDE 4

Can you determine if this is LaTeX specific:
- does this only happen with LaTeX documents?
- Or LaTeX documents you are compiling?
- Or does it happen with regular .pdf's?

First experiment:

pgup and pgdown are disabled as soon as I hit F5 for any document. And that's even though, as is sensible, they are enable when opening a document, either from the command line or using CTL-O.


.... and a few moments later after experimenting, the keys work after reload, including in my LaTeX setup. My AuCTeX setup just does:

okular filename.pdf#src:linenofilename.tex

and I have the "Reload document on file change" box ticked ON.
But I believe that's irrelevant.

Okular's inconsistencies are stunning.

The question remains though: why should there be a mode in which those keys are disabled? It's either a bug or intentional. If it's the latter, I'd love to hear the rationale.

For info, I like okular because you can map all operations to hotkeys of your choice, and avoid going through menus and seldom use the mouse if at all. And that is very good design in my opinion.