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From: Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org>
Subject: Re: bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:28:36 +0100
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To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com>, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> Unfortunately this is a problem with most of the desktop specific
> *-open commands.  Take a look at this post from emacs-devel (thanks to
> Glenn for pointing me to it):
>
>   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-07/msg00279.html>
>
> Essentially, running xdg-open asynchronously will not work for Desktop
> Environments that use gvfs-open (Gnome, Unity, Mate, etc).  From the
> looks of it, exo-open (XFCE) also suffers from the same problem.
>
> That said, it would be nice if Glyn could try it on KDE for the sake
> of completeness.  As per the emacs-devel post, kde-open should work.

Yes indeed - I just gave the elpa release (091620013) a spin on KDE and
both pdf and html files open nicely. 

Many thanks


atb

Glyn