> From: Maxim Nikulin <m.a.niku...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:31:53 +0700 > Cc: gbio...@gmail.com > > > How about asking the xdg-open developers to help us figure out the > > reason? Or, failing that, debug xdg-open in the problematic > > situations to find out what fails there and why? E.g., could it be > > that it fails because stdin/stdout is a PTY? what happens if you bind > > process-connection-type to nil when starting the async subprocess? > > I do not think, it is xdg-open problem. It just calls kde-open5 that > spawns actual handler and immediately exits.
I didn't say it was their problem, I suggested to ask them to help us understand why xdg-open doesn't work in those cases, under the assumption that they are familiar with their code better than us.