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From: JānisDžeriņš <jonis@latnet.lv>
To: 15144@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 07:09:28 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20130821T090459-129@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txikl2ub.fsf@gnu.org>

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > browse-url silently fails:
> >
> > $ emacs -Q
> > M-x browse-url RET http://gnu.org RET
> >
> > the *Messages* buffer now has this:
> >
> > Waiting for process to die...done
> >
> > The google chrome (the default browser) does not display anyting.
> 
> Looks that xdg-open actually returns an error:
> 
> xdg-open http://www.google.fr
> Error: No running window found
> 
> So it is more a bug in xdg-open than a bug in Emacs.

I also have this problem.  And I fixed it by passing NIL instead of 0
as the third parameter (DESTINATION) to CALL-PROCESS in
BROWSE-URL-XDG-OPEN.  T also worked.

--
Jānis






  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-21  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-20 16:54 bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails Sam Steingold
2013-08-20 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-08-21  7:09   ` JānisDžeriņš [this message]
2013-08-21 21:32 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-22 20:08 ` bug#15144: " Karl Fogel

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