diff --git a/app/mainwindow.cpp b/app/mainwindow.cpp
--- a/app/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/app/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@
 
     void setupViewMainPage(QWidget* parent)
     {
-        mViewMainPage = new ViewMainPage(parent, mSlideShow, q->actionCollection(), mGvCore);
+        mViewMainPage = new ViewMainPage(parent, q, mSlideShow, q->actionCollection(), mGvCore);
         connect(mViewMainPage, SIGNAL(captionUpdateRequested(QString)),
                 q, SLOT(slotUpdateCaption(QString)));
         connect(mViewMainPage, SIGNAL(completed()),
diff --git a/app/viewmainpage.h b/app/viewmainpage.h
--- a/app/viewmainpage.h
+++ b/app/viewmainpage.h
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 class DocumentView;
 class GvCore;
 class RasterImageView;
+class MainWindow;
 class SlideShow;
 class ThumbnailBarView;
 
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@
 public:
     static const int MaxViewCount;
 
-    ViewMainPage(QWidget* parent, SlideShow*, KActionCollection*, GvCore*);
+    ViewMainPage(QWidget* parent, MainWindow* mainWindow, SlideShow*, KActionCollection*, GvCore*);
     ~ViewMainPage();
 
     ThumbnailBarView* thumbnailBar() const;
diff --git a/app/viewmainpage.cpp b/app/viewmainpage.cpp
--- a/app/viewmainpage.cpp
+++ b/app/viewmainpage.cpp
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 #include "fileoperations.h"
 #include <gvcore.h>
 #include "splitter.h"
+#include "mainwindow.h"
 #include <lib/document/document.h>
 #include <lib/documentview/abstractdocumentviewadapter.h>
 #include <lib/documentview/abstractrasterimageviewtool.h>
@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@
 struct ViewMainPagePrivate
 {
     ViewMainPage* q;
+    MainWindow* mMainWindow;
     SlideShow* mSlideShow;
     KActionCollection* mActionCollection;
     GvCore* mGvCore;
@@ -224,6 +226,7 @@
         mDocumentViewController->setZoomWidget(mZoomWidget);
         mDocumentViewController->setToolContainer(mToolContainer);
         mSynchronizer = new DocumentViewSynchronizer(&mDocumentViews, q);
+        QObject::connect(mMainWindow, &MainWindow::viewModeChanged, mDocumentViewController, &DocumentViewController::slotViewModeChanged);
     }
 
     DocumentView* createDocumentView()
@@ -376,12 +379,13 @@
     }
 };
 
-ViewMainPage::ViewMainPage(QWidget* parent, SlideShow* slideShow, KActionCollection* actionCollection, GvCore* gvCore)
+ViewMainPage::ViewMainPage(QWidget* parent, MainWindow* mainWindow, SlideShow* slideShow, KActionCollection* actionCollection, GvCore* gvCore)
 : QWidget(parent)
 , d(new ViewMainPagePrivate)
 {
     d->q = this;
     d->mDirModelToBarModelProxyMapper = 0; // Initialized later
+    d->mMainWindow = mainWindow;
     d->mSlideShow = slideShow;
     d->mActionCollection = actionCollection;
     d->mGvCore = gvCore;
diff --git a/lib/documentview/documentviewcontroller.h b/lib/documentview/documentviewcontroller.h
--- a/lib/documentview/documentviewcontroller.h
+++ b/lib/documentview/documentviewcontroller.h
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@
 
     void setToolContainer(SlideContainer* container);
 
+public Q_SLOTS:
+    void slotViewModeChanged();
+
 private Q_SLOTS:
     void slotAdapterChanged();
     void updateZoomToFitActionFromView();
diff --git a/lib/documentview/documentviewcontroller.cpp b/lib/documentview/documentviewcontroller.cpp
--- a/lib/documentview/documentviewcontroller.cpp
+++ b/lib/documentview/documentviewcontroller.cpp
@@ -273,6 +273,11 @@
     }
 }
 
+void DocumentViewController::slotViewModeChanged()
+{
+    d->updateActions();
+}
+
 void DocumentViewController::setToolContainer(SlideContainer* container)
 {
     d->mToolContainer = container;