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Some issues with Mac
Hi, and thanks for this very cool project. I love the idea of having flexible PDF readers that are keyboard-centered. I have been using Zathura in Mac for some time now, but Sioyek has really nice features.
I have encountered two issues so far using the Mac build provided on the release page (I'm running MacOS v12.1, M1 silicon).
- First, the application stops responding completely when pressing
tto access the table of contents. I have to force quit and restart the application. - Second, if I try to open a pdf file from the file explore (finder in Mac) using "open with" and selecting Sioyek, the application launches but does not open the selected file (is there a command to open pdf files from the terminal?). It seems like I can only open files from within Sioyek by pressing
o.
Everything else seems to be working fine.
Thanks in advance!
Hi! Thanks for you feedback. Currently I don't have access to a Mac computer but I will check out these issues as soon as I have access to one.
By the way you can open documents from command line using
sioyek file_name.pdf
Thanks again. Sure I understand!
By the way you can open documents from command line using
sioyek file_name.pdf
Actually, I tried that but the command is not available in either zsh or bash. I will try to grab it from the application directory if I find it and add it to my path.
I am having the same issues. This command works if you add the executable (within the app package) to your path.
I have a hacky work-around for complaint (ii). I'm sure there is a standard way to resolve this but know nothing about macOS development. Instead, I used Automator to create a new application which runs the shell script "/Applications/sioyek.app/Contents/MacOS/sioyek $1". (edit: make sure to set "Pass input" to "as arguments")
I have a hacky work-around for complaint (ii). I'm sure there is a standard way to resolve this but know nothing about macOS development. Instead, I used Automator to create a new application which runs the shell script "/Applications/sioyek.app/Contents/MacOS/sioyek $1". (edit: make sure to set "Pass input" to "as arguments")
I just had the same problem and found this issue, thanks for the idea with the automator wrapper.
I’ve slightly changed the shell script to use the “open” command, as otherwise I was unable two open more than one file at the same time, the second file would only open once sioyek with the first file was closed. Using open -a does not have this problem.
Btw: While googling for a solution, I stumbled upon this https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qfileopenevent.html#macos-example Changing the plist is easy but I unfortunately have no idea how to implement the other necessary part.
I did this
ln -s /Applications/sioyek.app/Contents/MacOS/sioyek /usr/local/bin/sioyek
but now sioyek runs as a process in the terminal
