Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > On 17.9.2013, at 15:56, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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. > > Do I need to conclude that, for the time being, xdg-open has to be > removed from the default value of org-file-apps?
That did the trick - pdf files now open as before, as do html exports. Many thanks. atb Glyn