I found exactly same problem and some answer on this question: https://askubuntu.com/questions/646631/emacs-doesnot-work-with-xdg-open But I hope Org Mode can provide solution by default. Based on the description in answers. Is there something Org Mode can do to get around this problem? Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Hello, > > stardiviner writes: > >> When I press =[C-u C-u C-c C-o]= to open an image file link with system external >> program. It can't open the image file. > > Is it really an Org bug? I.e., is your mailcap file properly set up? > > If you think this is really an Org bug, could you provide an ECM, > including your .mailcap? > > Regards, -- [ stardiviner ] I try to make every word tell the meaning that I want to express. Blog: https://stardiviner.github.io/ IRC(freenode): stardiviner, Matrix: stardiviner GPG: F09F650D7D674819892591401B5DF1C95AE89AC3