From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glyn Millington Subject: Re: bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:34:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87a9jbnndl.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <06D4DDE1-E3D1-470E-A887-66B78BD58302@gmail.com> <87ob7rri02.fsf@nowhere.org> <20130917135651.GC8200@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> <20130917194250.GA16911@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> <20130917202134.GB16911@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> <20130917212557.GC16911@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> Reply-To: glyn.millington@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47136) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VM2vj-00078R-6g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:35:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VM2vX-00080M-Bc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:35:31 -0400 Received: from smtp.idnet.com ([212.69.40.133]:37285) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VM2vX-0007zk-3L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:35:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130917212557.GC16911@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (Suvayu Ali's message of "Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:25:57 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Suvayu Ali Cc: Emacs Org mode , Glyn Millington , Carsten Dominik Suvayu Ali writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:31:41PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote: >> On 17.9.2013, at 22:21, Suvayu Ali >> wrote: >> > I can consistently repeat this outside of Org. I am trying with >> > dired-do-shell-command'. >> > >> > Steps: 1) (dired-do-shell-command "xdg-open" nil '("file.pdf")), >> > the script runs and opens the pdf file. 2) >> > (dired-do-shell-command "xdg-open &" nil '("file.pdf")), this runs >> > the script too but the pdf is not opened. >> > >> > (I know the scripts run because I turned on debugging in the >> > scripts) >> > >> > I'm assuming Org opens it asynchronously. What lisp function does >> > Org use? >> Org used start-process-shell-command, and this happens in >> org-open-file, which is called for links to a file in >> org-open-at-point. > > I need some feedback from users using different desktop environments. > What DEs do you use, Matt, Glyn? Xfce here too, on Arch linux. > > I am on XFCE. For me xdg-open calls the internal function (defined in > the script), open_xfce. Inside that function, exo-open is called. > This is XFCE specific. When I replace exo-open with say, evince, and > open a pdf file; start-process-shell-command works; with exo-open it > doesn't. I can repeat this for html files with Firefox. > > I would like to know if other desktop environments has the same issue: > kde-open (KDE) and gvfs-open (Gnome, Mate, etc). So to test, just > open a directory with pdf/odt/html files in dired and run either of > them asynchronously with &. If you don't get any other feedback I'll try again with KDE in the morning - it's late here! with thanks and best wishes Glyn