Lars Ingebrigtsen <la...@gnus.org> writes:
> 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). For me, I get M-! xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf works M-x shell <ret> xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf works M-& xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf fails M-x eshell <ret> xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf fails The two which fail do not report any error - just now pdf viewer open. I also have no problems with org export menu when I choose export to pdf and open. This was on a Ubuntu 20.10, latest Emacs 27 (27.5.91), mate DE and default shell zsh. -- Tim Cross
