Previewer is non functional with zathura method

[Felipe-9]

Description

Previewer is not working, whenever i try to do \lv or :VimtexView nothing happens, neither zathura nor zathura_simple is working, zathura seems to be installed alright on my computer

zathura --version

zathura 0.5.2
girara 0.4.0 (runtime: 0.4.0)
(plugin) pdf-poppler (0.3.0) (/opt/homebrew/Cellar/zathura/0.5.2/lib/zathura/libpdf-poppler.dylib)

Steps to reproduce

Have my config:

Vimtex.lua

return {
  "lervag/vimtex",
  lazy = false,
  init = function()
    local g = vim.g
    g.vimtex_view_method = "zathura"
    -- g.vimtex_view_method = "zathura_simple"
    g.vimtex_compiler_latexmk_engines = { ["_"] = '-lualatex'}
    g.vimtex_compiler_latexmk = {
      aux_dir = ".build",
      -- out_dir = "",
      options = {
        "-shell-escape",
        "-verbose",
        "-file-line-error",
        "-synctex=1",
        "-interaction=nonstopmode",
      }
    }
    g.vimtex_quickfix_mode = 0
    g.vimtex_mappings_enable = 0
    g.vimtex_log_ignore = ({
      "Underfull",
      "Overfull",
      "specifier changed to",
      "Token not allowed in PDF string",
    })
  end
}

Expected behavior

open pdf previewer on compiling and after pressing the shortucts or the command :VimtexView

Actual behavior

nothing happens, no error, no anything

Do you use a latexmkrc file?

no

VimtexInfo

System info:
  OS: macOS 14.6.1 (23G93)
  Vim version: NVIM v0.10.1
  Has clientserver: true
  Servername: /var/folders/5f/hn34hzl13y907124_kr68p380000gn/T/nvim.felipepinto/jsx9et/nvim.94442.0

VimTeX project: MWE
  base: MWE.tex
  root: /Users/felipepinto/.config/nvim.mwe/MWE
  tex: /Users/felipepinto/.config/nvim.mwe/MWE/MWE.tex
  main parser: current file verified
  document class: minipage
  packages: calc ctablestack expl3 fontenc fontsize fontspec fontspec-luatex ifluatex iftex import infwarerr ltxcmds luacode luatex85 luatexbase pdftexcmds shellesc subfiles xfp xkeyval xparse
  compiler: latexmk
    engine: -lualatex
    options:
      -shell-escape
      -verbose
      -file-line-error
      -synctex=1
      -interaction=nonstopmode
    aux_dir: .build
    callback: 1
    continuous: 1
    executable: latexmk
    job: 
      jobid: 8
      output: /var/folders/5f/hn34hzl13y907124_kr68p380000gn/T/nvim.felipepinto/jsx9et/0
      cmd: max_print_line=2000 latexmk -shell-escape -verbose -file-line-error -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode  -lualatex -emulate-aux-dir -auxdir=.build -pvc -pvctimeout- -view=none -e '$compiling_cmd = ($compiling_cmd ? $compiling_cmd . " ; " : "") . "echo vimtex_compiler_callback_compiling"' -e '$success_cmd = ($success_cmd ? $success_cmd . " ; " : "") . "echo vimtex_compiler_callback_success"' -e '$failure_cmd = ($failure_cmd ? $failure_cmd . " ; " : "") . "echo vimtex_compiler_callback_failure"' 'MWE.tex'
      pid: 95005
  viewer: Zathura
    xwin id: 0
    cmd_start: zathura  -x "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/neovim/0.10.1/bin/nvim --headless -c \"VimtexInverseSearch %{line} '%{input}'\"" --synctex-forward 13:1:'/Users/felipepinto/.config/nvim.mwe/MWE/MWE.tex' 'MWE.pdf'&
  qf method: LaTeX logfile

[lervag]

First, I notice that you are testing this on a file with a very long name. Is that relevant here, or do you have the same problem with regular (short) file names?

[lervag]

Also, just for curiosity: Why do you want to alias g to vim.g? I don't see the benefit here. Yes, you are saving a few characters, but the lines are pretty short anyway, and now you can't really immediately copy those lines around since they rely on this initial alias.

[Felipe-9]

on the alias, i dont really have such strong opinion on maintaining it or not.
on the file name, no it just happens to be the same file as the other issue, i should probably just have used a new MWE, my bad
i already edited the mwe to a regular name/path

[lervag]

on the file name, no it just happens to be the same file as the other issue, i should probably just have used a new MWE, my bad

Ok, so, the issue is still there regardless? Does it work if you open a file from a terminal with zathura test.pdf?

Btw: On MacOS I think Skim is the most popular PDF viewer and I think it should be quite good.

[Felipe-9]

Zathura does work fine when i use the terminal: zathura test.pdf, i could check it out, i had chosen zanthura cause the vim navigation and it would be the same tool with my linux computer.

[lervag]

Ok, great. If you open you mwe.tex file, compile it, then do :!zathura mwe.pdf - does it open now?

[Felipe-9]

Alright lemme try....
yup, working alright.

[lervag]

Cool, now, again in the terminal, what happens if you do this?

zathura  -x "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/neovim/0.10.1/bin/nvim --headless -c \"VimtexInverseSearch %{line} '%{input}'\"" --synctex-forward 13:1:'/Users/felipepinto/.config/nvim.mwe/MWE/MWE.tex' 'MWE.pdf'

[Felipe-9]

i get this error

error: Built without synctex support, but synctex specific option was specified.

[Felipe-9]

maybe the problem is the missing synctex support
im going to re-install zathura with the --with-synctex option

[Felipe-9]

im getting a new error...

zathura  -x "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/neovim/0.10.1/bin/nvim --headless -c \"VimtexInverseSearch %{line} '%{input}'\"" --synctex-forward 13:1:'/Users/felipepinto/.config/nvim.mwe/MWE/MWE.tex' 'MWE.pdf'
error: Could not connect to session bus: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
error: Got no usable data from SyncTeX or D-Bus failed in some way.

[lervag]

Ok, the next step now is to read :help vimtex-faq-zathura-macos.

[Felipe-9]

Alright i will get to it, thanks for leading the way.
will report on it later