On 18.9.2013, at 14:14, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Eric, > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:07:17AM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> [...] >> >>> I need some feedback from users using different desktop environments. >> >> [...] >> >>> I would like to know if other desktop environments has the same issue: >>> kde-open (KDE) and gvfs-open (Gnome, Mate, etc). So to test, just open >>> a directory with pdf/odt/html files in dired and run either of them >>> asynchronously with &. >>> >>> Cheers, >> >> One more data point. I don't use a desktop environment as such. I use >> /ratpoison/ as my window manager. In my use case, on a system running >> Ubuntu 13.04, xdg-open works perfectly fine, both synchronously (!) and >> asynchronously (&), for all three file types listed above, bringing up >> evince, libreoffice and firefox respectively. > > I think that is expected. The bug is in the desktop specific open > commands. Since you use none, generic open is used. That is simply a > shell function, and does the right thing. Hi, Is there a generic open command in Linux? Why don't we use this instead? - Carsten > > -- > Suvayu > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. >
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