---
name: "fbless"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "fbless"
version: "0.2.3-6"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/fbless"
---

# fbless(1)

console fb2 reader

## NAME

fbless - console fb2 reader

## SYNOPSIS

fbless { book.fb2 \| book.fb2.{zip \| gz \| bz2} }

## DESCRIPTION

Fbless creates full-size ncurses window, with content of book displayed and only piece of user interface is statusbar at bottom. Interactrion with program is invisible, in vim style, using following default keys:

- Up,k

  scroll one line up

- Down,j

  scroll one line down

- PgUp

  scroll one page up

- Space,PgDown

  scroll one page down

- Home,g

  scroll to the beginning of file

- End

  scroll to the end of file

- 5,G

  move to position in file (you will be interactively asked for percents value in range from 0 to 100, where 0 is the beginning of file and 100 is the end of file)

- Tab

  move pointer on the next link

- Enter,Right

  follow link under pointer

- Left, h

  return back

- Backspace, l

  re-follow last link

- a

  toggle auto-scroll mode

- f

  enable fifo-style scrolling

- \+,-

  increase/decrease autoscroll interval (1sec granuality)

- /

  search for regular expression

- n

  go to the next search result

- s

  toggle statusbar

- q

  quit

**fbless** saves position in file on quit, and restores it next time you open same file, unless you move it in the meantime.

## FILES

- \~/.fbless\_save

  file to store last viewed positions in books

- \~/.fblessrc, $XDG\_BASE\_DIR/fbless/fblessrc

  configuration file, creating and editing it allows customize colors, keybindings and some other options. Default one in installed under */usr/share/doc/fbless*

## NOTES

This manual page was written by Dmitry Bogatov for Debian project, but can be used by others under terms of GPLv2+ license.

## AUTHORS

Con Radchenko.