On 17.9.2013, at 15:56, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:04:45AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: >> Carsten Dominik writes: >> >>> On 17.9.2013, at 08:01, Matt Price wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Matt Price >>>> wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Achim Gratz >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Or you could leave it in and see who complains. The instances >>>>>> where xdg-open doesn't work or is not correctly configured will >>>>>> probably be in multi-user / corporate environments where it is >>>>>> unlikely that the newest Org or Emacs is installed anyway. >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm running today's org with a recent emacs-snapshot in a >>>>> single-user linux environment (ubuntu 13.04). >>>>> >>>>> xdg-open xxx.html works fine when run from the command line, but >>>>> from inside org-mode it seems to fail to run In particular, html, >>>>> odt and pdf documents no longer seem to open from the export menu, >>>>> even though the log in *Messages* reports that the relevant command >>>>> ("xdg-open-my-org-file.html") has been run. >>> >>> Is there anyone else who has tried the xgd-open way to follow links >>> with Org? >>> >> >> Yes, I have the same symptoms as Matt. >> >> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.2) >> Org-mode 8.1.1 (the latest ELPA package fails in the same way) >> >> xdg-open works on the command line but not through the org-export menu - >> pdfs and html files don't open automatically. There are no error messages. > > I see the same problem. But I think this might be an Emacs issue; I > can't open a pdf from dired either (with & on a pdf file). However I > can open it if I execute a shell command: M-! xdg-open file.pdf RET. Do I need to conclude that, for the time being, xdg-open has to be removed from the default value of org-file-apps? - Carsten > > Cheers, > > -- > Suvayu > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. >