On 19.9.2013, at 06:34, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
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>> On 18.9.2013, at 14:14, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> I think that is expected.  The bug is in the desktop specific open
>>> commands.  Since you use none, generic open is used.  That is simply a
>>> shell function, and does the right thing.
>> 
>> Is there a generic open command in Linux?  Why don't we use this instead?
>> 
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> Not really. There is a shell function called open_generic inside of
> xdg-open. I believe that's what Suvayu was referring to. But there is
> no clean way of calling it, short of pulling it out of the xdg-open
> script into a new script: as a general solution, that's hopeless.

All right.  Too bad.  Thank you.

- Carsten


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