Bug#1127562: evince: Zoom with Ctrl+mouse wheel doesn't work

[Jeremy Bícha]

Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/-/issues/2131

On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM Philippe SWARTVAGHER <phil.swart at gmx.fr> wrote:
> Starting from this version 49, I cannot change the zoom of PDF document
> with the shortcut Ctrl + wheel of the mouse. I don't know if it is
> expected (I hope not), but it works with previous versions of evince.

Yes, I confirm it used to work but does not work now so I reported it upstream.

You can use ctrl+- and ctrl++/ctrl+= to zoom instead.

I encourage you to consider installing the papers app instead. It is
GNOME's current default PDF viewer.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha