On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:04:45AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On 17.9.2013, at 08:01, Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> > >>> wrote: > >>>> Or you could leave it in and see who complains. The instances > >>>> where xdg-open doesn't work or is not correctly configured will > >>>> probably be in multi-user / corporate environments where it is > >>>> unlikely that the newest Org or Emacs is installed anyway. > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I'm running today's org with a recent emacs-snapshot in a > >>> single-user linux environment (ubuntu 13.04). > >>> > >>> xdg-open xxx.html works fine when run from the command line, but > >>> from inside org-mode it seems to fail to run In particular, html, > >>> odt and pdf documents no longer seem to open from the export menu, > >>> even though the log in *Messages* reports that the relevant command > >>> ("xdg-open-my-org-file.html") has been run. > > > > Is there anyone else who has tried the xgd-open way to follow links > > with Org? > > > > Yes, I have the same symptoms as Matt. > > GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.2) > Org-mode 8.1.1 (the latest ELPA package fails in the same way) > > xdg-open works on the command line but not through the org-export menu - > pdfs and html files don't open automatically. There are no error messages.
I see the same problem. But I think this might be an Emacs issue; I can't open a pdf from dired either (with & on a pdf file). However I can open it if I execute a shell command: M-! xdg-open file.pdf RET. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.