On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 06:15:27PM +0700, Maxim Nikulin wrote: > Bhavin, thank you very much for your clear report. I have tried once > more with eshell session and this time I was lucky enough to > reproduce the problem in both gnome and kde sessions on Ubuntu-20.04 > focal [...] > 2221 16:59:43.717489 +++ exited with 0 +++ > 2229 16:59:43.719228 +++ killed by SIGHUP +++ Good catch. > On 31/01/2021 16:09, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > >This chaotic behaviour gives me the impression that it's an > >environment thing [...] > Certainly the behavior depends on the desktop environment. You could > check which DE-specific handler is called (and factor-out xdg-open) > with > > sh -x /usr/bin/xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf > > As to other options, M-! executes the process synchronously and is > not affected. M-& has the same pty+SIGHUP problem. > > I am almost sure that I have tried eshell before, but I have no idea > why I have not noticed the problem that time. Yes, but in this case it seems I was barking up the wrong tree :) Cheers & thanks - t