"gbiotti@gmail.com" <gbiotti@gmail.com> writes:

>> Yeah, calling xdg-open (and expecting it not to exit) is a known
>> problem, but here it seems that xdg-open doesn't even work from *shell*,
>> which is very odd.
>
> More info:
>
> As per bug 25234, using 'M-! xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf', 'M-& xdg-open
> /tmp/test.pdf'
> and 'M-& xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf && sleep 3' I get same results as reported.

I'm not quite sure what you mean here.  Do you mean that
`M-! xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf' works fine, or that it fails?

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