Re: bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:36:52AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:24:51AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> > 
> > On 19.9.2013, at 06:34, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> > > 
> > >> On 18.9.2013, at 14:14, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> ...
> > >>> I think that is expected.  The bug is in the desktop specific open
> > >>> commands.  Since you use none, generic open is used.  That is simply a
> > >>> shell function, and does the right thing.
> > >> 
> > >> Is there a generic open command in Linux?  Why don't we use this instead?
> > >> 
> > > 
> > > Not really. There is a shell function called open_generic inside of
> > > xdg-open. I believe that's what Suvayu was referring to. But there is
> > > no clean way of calling it, short of pulling it out of the xdg-open
> > > script into a new script: as a general solution, that's hopeless.
> > 
> > All right.  Too bad.  Thank you.
> 
> Nick said it accurately.  It is part of the xdg-open script.

I have some good news (sort of).  We can force generic open by calling
xdg-open like this[1]:

  DE=generic xdg-open /path/to/file

I tested this with

  (start-process-shell-command "DE=generic xdg-open test.html"
                               nil "DE=generic xdg-open test.html")

and it works well.  Do you think this is acceptable?

Cheers,


Footnotes:

[1] <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653249#c20>

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Suvayu

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