Re: use of 'system in ox-odt.el

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 01:21:34PM +0200, Rasmus wrote:
> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:50:03AM +0200, Rasmus wrote:
> >> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
> >> 
> >
> >> > 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.
> >> 
> >> I have this in my mailcap
> >> 
> >>     application/msword;              antiword %s;
> >>     application/pdf; 		     evince %s;
> >>     application/vnd.lotus-organizer; emacsclient -ca '' %s;
> >>     application/zip                  file-roller %s;
> >> 
> >> Org does not open my html and odt files.  It does open pdf files.  This is
> >> using emacs -q.  I use Gnome 3.16 and xdg-open works as expected from the
> >> terminal.
> >
> > There should also be a system-wide setting in /etc/mailcap.  On my
> > Fedora machine, the system-wide settings all look like this:
> >
> >   text/html; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s ; copiousoutput
> >
> > If yours doesn't, you could override it in ~/.mailcap.  If that doesn't
> > fix things, I'm out of ideas :-|.
> 
> Now it get the message
> 
>     Running /usr/bin/xdg-open /tmp/test.html ...done
> 
> But it doesn't actually open the file...  The same happens when I mark the
> file in dired and says & xdg-open.  From the terminal it works fine.

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

Hope this helps,

-- 
Suvayu

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