TexText not working in Inkscape 1.43 (MacOS) #484
Description
From issue #483, user @fbonaldi reports:
It was indeed working fine on Inkscape 1.42. The issue only occurs with TexText, not with the "Formula (pdflatex)" option of Inkscape 1.43 which is still working fine.
Nevertheless, I do get an error message upon selecting "TexText", the following (tried also with TexText 1.11.1 to no avail).
macOS 26.2 Tahoe
MacTeX 2024[TexText][DEBUG ]: First run of TexText. Enforcing DEBUG mode. [TexText][DEBUG ]: TexText initialized [TexText][DEBUG ]: TexText version = '1.12.0' (md5sum = 234e944e716c31909c0070d61c7ed830) [TexText][DEBUG ]: platform.system() = 'Darwin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: platform.release() = '25.2.0' [TexText][DEBUG ]: platform.version() = 'Darwin Kernel Version 25.2.0: Tue Nov 18 21:09:56 PST 2025; root:xnu-12377.61.12~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6041' [TexText][DEBUG ]: platform.machine() = 'arm64' [TexText][DEBUG ]: platform.uname() = uname_result(system='Darwin', node='Mac.homenet.telecomitalia.it', release='25.2.0', version='Darwin Kernel Version 25.2.0: Tue Nov 18 21:09:56 PST 2025; root:xnu-12377.61.12~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6041', machine='arm64') [TexText][DEBUG ]: platform.mac_ver() = ('26.2', ('', '', ''), 'arm64') [TexText][DEBUG ]: sys.executable = '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/python3' [TexText][DEBUG ]: sys.version = '3.10.19 (main, Nov 22 2025, 16:29:05) [Clang 16.0.0 (clang-1600.0.26.3)]' [TexText][DEBUG ]: os.environ = environ({'OSLogRateLimit': '64', 'USER': 'francescobonaldi', 'COMMAND_MODE': 'unix2003', '__CFBundleIdentifier': 'org.inkscape.Inkscape', 'PATH': '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS:/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin', 'LOGNAME': 'francescobonaldi', 'DISPLAY': '/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.Kau8IBx66m/org.xquartz:0', 'SSH_AUTH_SOCK': '/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.w3hdIDag4X/Listeners', 'HOME': '/Users/francescobonaldi', 'SHELL': '/bin/zsh', 'TMPDIR': '/var/folders/6r/4ydrbbqd4_n26t27gjl3c8w00000gn/T/', '__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING': '0x1F5:0x0:0x4', 'XPC_SERVICE_NAME': '0', 'XPC_FLAGS': '0x0', 'XDG_DATA_HOME': '/Users/francescobonaldi/Library/Application Support/org.inkscape.Inkscape/share', 'XDG_DATA_DIRS': '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share:/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape', 'XDG_CONFIG_HOME': '/Users/francescobonaldi/Library/Application Support/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config', 'XDG_CONFIG_DIRS': '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/etc/xdg', 'XDG_CACHE_HOME': '/Users/francescobonaldi/Library/Application Support/org.inkscape.Inkscape/cache', 'GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE': '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache', 'FONTCONFIG_PATH': '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/etc/fonts', 'GIO_MODULE_DIR': '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gio/modules', 'GI_TYPELIB_PATH': '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/girepository-1.0', 'ENCHANT_PREFIX': '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources', 'DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH': '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib:/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders', 'PYTHONPATH': '/Users/francescobonaldi/Library/Application Support/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions:/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape/extensions:/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex/deprecated-simple', 'PYTHONIOENCODING': 'UTF-8', 'LANGUAGE': 'en', 'INKSCAPE_PROFILE_DIR': '/Users/francescobonaldi/Library/Application Support/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape', 'SELF_CALL': 'true', 'DOCUMENT_PATH': '', 'INKEX_GETTEXT_DOMAIN': 'inkscape', 'INKEX_GETTEXT_DIRECTORY': '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/locale', 'LC_CTYPE': 'C.UTF-8'}) [TexText][INFO ]: Python interpreter: /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/python3 [TexText][INFO ]: Python version: 3.10.19 (main, Nov 22 2025, 16:29:05) [Clang 16.0.0 (clang-1600.0.26.3)] [TexText][INFO ]: Checking for Inkscape 1.4.0... [TexText][SUCCESS ]: ...Inkscape = 1.4.3 is found at /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape [TexText][INFO ]: Checking if GTK is available... [TexText][WARNING ]: ...GTK3 is not found (but TkInter maybe available as a fall back...). [TexText][INFO ]: GTK3 offers the best user experience. You may refer to the installation [TexText][INFO ]: instructions to make it available: [TexText][INFO ]: https://textext.github.io/textext/install/macos.html [TexText][INFO ]: Checking if Tk interface (tkinter) is available... [TexText][SUCCESS ]: ...tkinter is found. [TexText][INFO ]: Checking if pdflatex is available... [TexText][INFO ]: ...using 'pdflatex-executable' = '/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex' from settings. [TexText][SUCCESS ]: ...pdflatex is found at /Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex. [TexText][INFO ]: Checking if lualatex is available... [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'lualatex' in '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'lualatex' in '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'lualatex' in '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'lualatex' in '/usr/bin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'lualatex' in '/bin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'lualatex' in '/usr/sbin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'lualatex' in '/sbin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...'lualatex' is NOT found in PATH [TexText][WARNING ]: ...lualatex not found, but other LaTeX compilers or typst may [TexText][INFO ]: be available. If you want to use lualatex: Ensure that the [TexText][INFO ]: lualatex executable is in the system path or pass the path to [TexText][INFO ]: the setup via the --lualatex-executable command line option: [TexText][INFO ]: python3 setup.py --lualatex-executable /path/to/your/lualatex [TexText][INFO ]: Checking if xelatex is available... [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'xelatex' in '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'xelatex' in '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'xelatex' in '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'xelatex' in '/usr/bin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'xelatex' in '/bin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'xelatex' in '/usr/sbin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'xelatex' in '/sbin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...'xelatex' is NOT found in PATH [TexText][WARNING ]: ...xelatex not found, but other LaTeX compilers or typst may [TexText][INFO ]: be available. If you want to use xelatex: Ensure that the [TexText][INFO ]: xelatex executable is in the system path or pass the path to [TexText][INFO ]: the setup via the --xelatex-executable command line option: [TexText][INFO ]: python3 setup.py --xelatex-executable /path/to/your/xelatex [TexText][INFO ]: Checking if typst is available... [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'typst' in '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'typst' in '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'typst' in '/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'typst' in '/usr/bin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'typst' in '/bin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'typst' in '/usr/sbin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...Looking for 'typst' in '/sbin' [TexText][DEBUG ]: ...'typst' is NOT found in PATH [TexText][WARNING ]: ...typst not found, but latex compilers are available. [TexText][INFO ]: If you want to use typst: Ensure that the typst executable is in the system [TexText][INFO ]: path or pass the path to the setup via the --typst-executable command line [TexText][INFO ]: option: python3 setup.py --typst-executable /path/to/your/typst [TexText][DEBUG ]: TexText.effect [TexText][DEBUG ]: Using default preamble file `/Users/francescobonaldi/Library/Application Support/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions/textext/default_packages.tex` [TexText][DEBUG ]: TexText.effect failed [TexText][ERROR ]: 'gi.repository.GioUnix' object has no attribute 'DesktopAppInfo' [TexText][ERROR ]: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/francescobonaldi/Library/Application Support/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions/textext/__main__.py", line 24, in <module> effect.run() File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex/base.py", line 255, in run self.save_raw(self.effect()) File "/Users/francescobonaldi/Library/Application Support/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions/textext/base.py", line 299, in effect AskTextImpl = load_asktext_gtk() File "/Users/francescobonaldi/Library/Application Support/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions/textext/asktext.py", line 482, in load_asktext_gtk from gi.repository import Gtk File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 674, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 571, in module_from_spec File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/importer.py", line 146, in create_module importlib.import_module('gi.repository.' + dep.split("-")[0]) File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 674, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 571, in module_from_spec File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/importer.py", line 146, in create_module importlib.import_module('gi.repository.' + dep.split("-")[0]) File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 674, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 571, in module_from_spec File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/importer.py", line 146, in create_module importlib.import_module('gi.repository.' + dep.split("-")[0]) File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 674, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 571, in module_from_spec File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/importer.py", line 147, in create_module dynamic_module = load_overrides(introspection_module) File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/overrides/__init__.py", line 112, in load_overrides override_mod = importlib.import_module(override_package_name) File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gio.py", line 598, in <module> from gi.repository import GioUnix as GioPlatform File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 674, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 571, in module_from_spec File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/importer.py", line 147, in create_module dynamic_module = load_overrides(introspection_module) File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/overrides/__init__.py", line 112, in load_overrides override_mod = importlib.import_module(override_package_name) File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/overrides/GioUnix.py", line 23, in <module> class DesktopAppInfo(GioUnix.DesktopAppInfo): File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/module.py", line 130, in __getattr__ raise AttributeError("%r object has no attribute %r" % ( AttributeError: 'gi.repository.GioUnix' object has no attribute 'DesktopAppInfo' [TexText][INFO ]: TexText finished with error, please run extension again [TexText][INFO ]: If problem persists, please file a bug https://github.com/textext/textext/issues/new?template=bug_report.md '''