From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:07:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87eh8m4hx6.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMFbo-0000ie-E1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 07:07:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMFbd-0007Oh-6K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 07:07:48 -0400 Received: from mail14-co9on0066.outbound.messaging.microsoft.com ([157.56.211.66]:16527 helo=CO9EHSNDR002.bigfish.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMFbc-0007NF-U4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 07:07:37 -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 Suvayu Ali writes: [...] > I need some feedback from users using different desktop environments. [...] > 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 &. > > Cheers, One more data point. I don't use a desktop environment as such. I use /ratpoison/ as my window manager. In my use case, on a system running Ubuntu 13.04, xdg-open works perfectly fine, both synchronously (!) and asynchronously (&), for all three file types listed above, bringing up evince, libreoffice and firefox respectively. HTH, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.50.1, Org release_8.1.1-7-gaecdf5