On May 20, 2015 1:43 PM, "Suvayu Ali" <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 01:21:34PM +0200, Rasmus wrote:
> > Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:50:03AM +0200, Rasmus wrote:
> > >> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
> > >>
> > >
> > >> > Do you have a mailcap which says otherwise?  That's what I would suspect
> > >> > given the doc string for org-file-apps and the default value of
> > >> > org-file-apps-defaults-gnu on my system.
> > >>
> > >> I have this in my mailcap
> > >>
> > >>     application/msword;              antiword %s;
> > >>     application/pdf;                    evince %s;
> > >>     application/vnd.lotus-organizer; emacsclient -ca '' %s;
> > >>     application/zip                  file-roller %s;
> > >>
> > >> Org does not open my html and odt files.  It does open pdf files.  This is
> > >> using emacs -q.  I use Gnome 3.16 and xdg-open works as expected from the
> > >> terminal.
> > >
> > > There should also be a system-wide setting in /etc/mailcap.  On my
> > > Fedora machine, the system-wide settings all look like this:
> > >
> > >   text/html; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s ; copiousoutput
> > >
> > > If yours doesn't, you could override it in ~/.mailcap.  If that doesn't
> > > fix things, I'm out of ideas :-|.
> >
> > Now it get the message
> >
> >     Running /usr/bin/xdg-open /tmp/test.html ...done
> >
> > But it doesn't actually open the file...  The same happens when I mark the
> > file in dired and says & xdg-open.  From the terminal it works fine.
>
> You are on Gnome, rt?  I think there is a long standing "bug" in
> gvfs-open (which is called by xdg-open).
>
> See the following:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-07/msg00279.html
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652262
>
> I came across this a long time ago trying to investigate why xdg-open
> didn't work when running asynchronously like your example.
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/93430
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --
> Suvayu

I think those bug reports describe the problem precisely.  I am also on gnome and have much the same problem. 

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