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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:
> 
> > Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > When I export-and-open to odt, org doesn't open the resultant odt, even
> > > though I get a message:
> > >
> > > Running xdg-open /home/matt/RLG231/RLG231Syllabus.odt...done
> > >
> > > org-open-file works fine on links in an org buffer, and an anser on the
> > > following stackoverflow page suggests the issue is in ox-odt.el:
> >
> > With your change it open the odt file as a tar-mode file from Emacs -q.
> > Without your change it doesn't open it at all.  BTW: My Emacs also doesn't
> > open html exports in Fx files when I use C-c C-e h-o.  I never tried to
> > debug it though...
> >
> >
> Yeah, I just got that too -- I realized I hadn't been testing it in the
> right environment, shoot.  this modification worked for me (also form the
> same forum):
> 
> 
>  (setcdr (assq 'system org-file-apps-defaults-gnu ) '(call-process
> "xdg-open" nil 0 nil file))
> 
> Not sure why this should work when the default fails.  Fx opens html
> exports for me with C-c C-e h-o -- also not sure why that should work and
> odt fail.

Do you have a mailcap which says otherwise?  That's what I would suspect
given the doc string for org-file-apps and the default value of
org-file-apps-defaults-gnu on my system.

-- 
Suvayu

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