"gbio...@gmail.com" <gbio...@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? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no