/Korai

Next generation manga reader

Primary LanguageC++GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Korai

Next generation manga reader

Korai

Features

  • Fast: Despite using WebKitGtk, a port of an entire browser engine to GTK, Korai is incredibly fast loading chapters.
  • Easy to use: Everything is where it should be. No previous configuration required for almost anything.
  • Integrated manga downloader (Optional): Just write the title and Voilà!

File format support

Korai supports:

  • CBZ/ZIP files
  • CBR/RAR files
  • Folders with images inside
  • MangaDex: As Korai uses WebKitGTK, a browser engine, it can load manga web pages. Use the next chapter/previous chapter buttons to go back and forward.

Korai supports these types of images:

  • PNG files
  • JPG/JFIF/JPEG files
  • GIF files
  • WebP files
  • SVG files

Command line options

For more information, please execute korai -h

  • Run a tutorial: korai -t
  • Maximize the window: korai -m
  • Set default window size: korai -s <width>x<height> (Note the 'x')

Shortcuts

To make life easier, Korai supports some shortcuts:

  • Pressing 'o' will will open a dialog to open a file
  • Pressing left arrow will change to the previous chapter
  • Pressing right arrow will change to the next chapter

Dependencies

Korai requires:

  • Ubuntu & Debian:
sudo apt install libgtkmm-3.0-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libarchive-dev libvte-2.91-dev

And grab the latest downloader Linux release here and put it on your PATH.

  • Arch: The AUR source is automatically updated with GitHub and automatically grabs the dependencies (Including mangadex-downloader)
yay -S korai

Although you can still build Korai from source:

sudo pacman -S gtkmm3 webkit2gtk libarchive mangodl vte3
  • Any distro will need to pip install mangadex-downloader (you can run korai -c to install it) in order to get downloader integration with MangaDex

Building

To build Korai, please enter the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/DisableGraphics/Korai
cd Korai
meson setup builddir
cd builddir && meson install

NOTE: Versions below and including 0.2.1 use make to build the executable instead of meson. Run it on the root directory.

Troubleshooting

  1. The window is completely blank!
  • There's an issue surrounding WebKitGTK that can be traced to a faulty MIME types database (More information here). To correct this, please open Korai and click the button named "Reload MIME types" (Under the menu button).
  1. Hey, a weird file named index.html and a folder named tmp have appeared!
  • These two files are crucial for the operation of Korai. Don't worry, when the program is closed, they will be deleted.
  1. Hey, a weird file named chapter.conf has appeared and doesn't get deleted after closing!
  • This file is where Korai saves the last chapter the user was reading. Its path can be changed using the korai -f /path/to/save_file.conf command
  1. Hey, there's no Windows version!
  • WebKitGtk doesn't support Windows and so does Korai
  1. Why did you name the releases after heavy metal/hard rock songs?
  • Why not