From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Rakestraw Subject: Re: OT?: viewing pdf as attachment Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:56:09 -0500 Message-ID: <20081118145609.62d5b485@johnrakestraw.com> References: <20081118144032.5c2a1032@georgetown.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Wft-0002Gz-1Z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:55:49 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Wfr-0002GN-BT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:55:48 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35543 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Wfr-0002GI-4N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:55:47 -0500 Received: from uis-ipmx-2.pdc.uis.georgetown.edu ([141.161.2.141]:24380) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2Wfq-0005ND-S1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:55:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081118144032.5c2a1032@georgetown.edu> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > Hi -- > > I think this is not specifically an org-mode issue, but it shows up in > org. > > I've started using the file attachment feature. I really like the way > it works, except that it doesn't work consistently with pdf files on > one of my computers. I can attach a pdf easily, but when I try to open > the attachment from org-mode, acroread opens as expected but it > doesn't open the file -- instead, I have an empty acroread window > (the same window I get if I open acroread from the command line with > no file specified). The program is run, but somehow the file name > isn't passed to the program. > > I'm puzzled because it works as expected on my other primary computer, > and both computers have basically the emacs and org-mode same set-up > -- i.e., .emacs and the org-configuration files are identical. (I know > they're identical because they're synched between computers.) So > there's some other setting that's off. I'm hoping that someone can > give me a hint where to look. I've come up empty in my searches. > > Set-up on both computers: > - emacs 22.2.1 > - org 6.12trans > - Fedora 8 > - fvwm window manager Apologies for replying to my own message, but I forgot to say that when I run "acroread some_file.pdf" from a terminal, acroread opens the file as expected. -- John Rakestraw