Barckward search broken on evince (GTK4?)

[okennedy]

For at least a month now, control-clicking in evince has not been triggering forward/backward search. This is on several systems that were working properly at some point in the last three months, all running an up-to-date Pop!_OS (Linux, like Ubuntu).

I'm unsure how to debug LaTeXTools itself. journalctl --user only reports that the evince daemon has started... I'm not sure where to look for log messages from the daemon itself.

It might be helpful to note that several other of my synctex evince integrations appear to be broken as well. All of these appear to trace their lineage back to the gedit evince dbus daemon, which I believe is also the case for LaTeX tools. The immediate issue in virtually all of them appears to be that Gtk.main was removed in Gtk4, which Pop!_OS recently moved to.

If provided with some guidance, I'm happy to assist in debugging this issue

[bf]

I'm also affected by this

[okennedy]

For what it's worth, my current workaround has been to use Zathara, which supports synctex natively rather than via dbus daemon.

[deathaxe]

Well, if GTK4 is breaking how dbus deamons work ... .

If the long living simple python solution...

LaTeXTools/plugins/viewer/evince/backward_search

Lines 177 to 194 in 38346cc

	dbus.mainloop.glib.DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
	EvinceWindowProxy(
	# The PDF file name MUST be URI-encoded
	# RFC 1738: unreserved = alpha | digit | safe | extra
	# safe = "$" | "-" | "_" | "." | "+"
	# extra = "!" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")" | ","
	'file://' + quote(pdf_file, "/$+!*'(),@=~"),
	sys.argv[2],
	True
	)
	try:
	import gobject
	loop = gobject.MainLoop()
	except ImportError:
	from gi.repository import GLib
	loop = GLib.MainLoop()
	loop.run()

no longer works, someone responsible for breaking standard functionaltiy with GTK4 should suggest a proper fix.