Sorry, I'll try and be more specific. I don't use a desktop environment either, so I normally open emacs from a keybinding that uses the spawn command in herbstluftwm (which I think is basically a bash exec). Then after I compile a lilypond file with C-c C-c (and choose lilypond) then choose view, zathura opens and when I point and click it gets those errors. If I just close that instance of zathura, and then open a new one (from dmenu), then point and click works.
I haven't had time to try xpdf yet, but knowing this I can adjust and open zathura by itself instead of however emacs opens it through the command and things work. Just a change of habit. On Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 10:17 PM David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed 10 Apr 2024 at 21:35:16 (-0600), Ben Bradshaw wrote: > > Well I fixed having multiple lilyponds installed, and at first I thought > it > > worked. Zathura and xpdf at least work when I open them separately. > > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by open separately. Is this: typing > <viewer> in a command line, or clicking on a viewer's icon, or (by file > association) clicking on a PDF document? > > > I guess > > it's a minor annoyance, but if I open zathura from the C-c C-c part of > > emacs, then it doesn't work and I get those errors. > > Same again—how do you start emacs? > > > I have no clue why that > > would make a difference, but it seems to be the case. Open the file in a > > viewer separately and point and click works just fine. Use the lilypond > > command view and it doesn't. > > I've only tested with xpdf and emacs, each one opened from the command > line (because I don't use a desktop). Point-and-click works whether > xpdf was started from the command line or from ^C^C ViewPDF in emacs. > > > I guess I haven't tried to see if other pdf > > viewers work from the command menu, but it seems like it wouldn't be a > > zathura problem. > > I would try with xpdf, because it has a simpler configuration/mechanism > than viewers like zathura and evince. If xpdf works correctly, I would > suspect that there might by more Gnome-y stuff required to get zathura > to work when launched by emacs with ^C^C, rather than by Gnome. But > that's only a guess. > > Would you be able to adjust your workflow to begin by running zathura > on the PDF, and just clicking on an item in the score to launch emacs? > (Perhaps that's what you're already doing.) > > Cheers, > David. >
