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From: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: use of 'system in ox-odt.el
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 11:21:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN_Dec--EeL0yJNJ7C1yakFOKbSWm1-LCwubMv3OWwTL_R7fNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d21u1gzi.fsf@pank.eu>

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On May 21, 2015 04:32, "Rasmus" <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:
>
> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> You are on Gnome, rt?  I think there is a long standing "bug" in
> >> gvfs-open (which is called by xdg-open).
> >>
> >> See the following:
> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-07/msg00279.html
> >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652262
> >>
> >> I came across this a long time ago trying to investigate why xdg-open
> >> didn't work when running asynchronously like your example.
> >>
> >>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/93430
>
> > I think those bug reports describe the problem precisely.  I am also on
> > gnome and have much the same problem.
>
> 2 minutes research suggest that I cannot tell xdg-open to use another
> backend other than through environment variables, viz. BROWSER, DE,
> DESKTOP_SESSION.  Unfortunately, I was not able to make this work by just
> setting the DESKTOP_SESSION in either the shell starting Emacs or via
> setenv.
>
> So I guess on could use an xdg-open alternative or hardcode programs in
> mailcap...

Did you try this:

 (setcdr (assq 'system org-file-apps-defaults-gnu ) '(call-process
"xdg-open" nil 0 nil file))

That works for me.

>
> Rasmus
>
> --
> A page of history is worth a volume of logic
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-21 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-19 14:45 use of 'system in ox-odt.el Matt Price
2015-05-19 14:57 ` Rasmus
     [not found]   ` <CAN_Dec_p7ZsHFKHpS7ha62Rq0apawmqXBj5Jho1ceZ1d05SLKw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-19 18:19     ` Matt Price
2015-05-19 20:38       ` Suvayu Ali
2015-05-20  9:50         ` Rasmus
2015-05-20 11:03           ` Suvayu Ali
2015-05-20 11:21             ` Rasmus
2015-05-20 17:42               ` Suvayu Ali
2015-05-21  0:29                 ` Matt Price
2015-05-21  8:18                   ` Rasmus
2015-05-21 15:21                     ` Matt Price [this message]
2015-05-21 17:30                       ` Rasmus

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