From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs will show the scratch window instead of the tex document window when I double click on a tex document to open it.
Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 21:01:55 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6PO+GT+kG0mCG1KkJ_LwYaNJKCJ=dMN6trJD+YNfCvvasFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZE+jjl0r8zUyJq1U@tuxteam.de>
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 7:33 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 02:51:43PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> > On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 2:11 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > So it's GNOME, I see. Sorry to say that I lost track of GNOME years
> > > ago, so I'm not that much of an expert...
> >
> > So, what is your favorite desktop environment? What are you currently using?
>
> I'm a bit exotic. No desktop environment, just a window manager
> (fvwm2). I was actually quite a fan of GNOME in the early 2000s,
> but by about 2008 or so it started becoming too complex for my
> taste. After a short dabbling in XFCE I decided a desktop environment
> is too limiting for me and I went back to a simple WM; first it
> was Awesome, then (full circle) fvwm2.
>
> I have to do more things myself, but then I can do more things
> myself, and I appreciate that :-)
>
> > > > A very strange thing is that if I double-click on a very simple tex
> > > > file, this issue does not occur, as shown in the attached screenshot:
> > >
> > > This is strange indeed. I guess that there is a context menu
> > > (perhaps right-clicking on the file) which offers you "open
> > > with..." or similar. What happens then?
> >
> > The default application has been set to Emacs, as shown in the attachment.
>
> Hmmm. I see. Any chance finding out how Emacs is really invoked
> by your desktop environment?
>
> What happens if you open a terminal and just enter
>
> emacs <your-file-here>
>
> (substituting <your-file-here> by the real file path of your
> problematic file, of course)
The same problem occurs.
> Cheers
> --
> t
Zhao
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-01 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-30 14:36 Emacs will show the scratch window instead of the tex document window when I double click on a tex document to open it Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-30 14:45 ` tomas
2023-04-30 23:31 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-01 2:03 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-01 6:11 ` tomas
2023-05-01 6:51 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-01 7:04 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-01 11:38 ` tomas
2023-05-01 13:03 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-01 13:41 ` tomas
2023-05-01 13:55 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-01 14:08 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-05-01 15:10 ` tomas
2023-05-01 11:33 ` tomas
2023-05-01 13:01 ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2023-05-01 13:38 ` tomas
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