Re: Browsing dirs from Dired with graphical explorer

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>]

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>>> Hmm. No joy here on Debian.
>>>
>>> shell-command worked though but only for directories. For files the
>>> cursor sat spinning - possibly because the process was waiting for
>>> emacsclient to respond?
>>
>> I don't know.  What happens if you eval?
>>
>>   (start-process "dired-external" "*dired-external*"
>>                  "xdg-open" "http://www.freedesktop.org/")
>>
>> There should be some output in the *dired-external* buffer now.
>
> Yes : "Process dired-external finished". But nothing comes up.
>
>>
>> Hm, strange.  This doesn't work here, too, and in *dired-external*
>> there's only "Process dired-external finished".  If I replace "xdg-open"
>> with "conkeror" it'll start conkeror on freedesktop.org.
>>
>>   xdg-open http://www.freedesktop.org/
>>
>> in a terminal starts conkeror on freedesktop.org, too.  I'm totally
>> stunned why this doesn't work from inside emacs.  But
>
> its a relief you are seeing the same as me now :-;
>
>
>>
>>   (start-process "dired-external" "*dired-external*"
>>                  "xdg-open" (getenv "HOME"))
>
> great! thanks!
>
>>
>> does work and open thunar in my HOME.


I spoke too soon. It does not work here... I just get

Process dired-external finished

again the buffer.