Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: >> This doesn't work: >> M-x shell RET xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf RET > > 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'm unable to reproduce the problem at all -- all the various ways of calling xdg-open work fine for me (on this Debian bullseye laptop w/ Gnome Shell). -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
