On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:23 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > Hi list: > > What exactly is xdg-open and how to I configure it to do what I want? > > The question came up because I am using jabref, a Java based bibtex > management system. On my home machine, when I tried to open a PDF > file, java throws a file-not-found error on "xdg-open". But I have > xdg-utils installed, and xdg-open is found in /usr/bin. Right now I > have gotten around the problem by configuring jabref explicitly to use > xpdf to load PDF files. For all I know this is probably a > environment/PATH issue in the load script for jabref. > > I took a look at the man page for xdg-open, and find the concept > intriguing. The idea seems useful. But how does one go about "setting > the default" programs for various documents? > > If I try to issue "xdg-open file.pdf", it tries to load firefox, which > then asks me where to save the pdf file. This is rather obviously not > the desired behaviour. Maybe I'm blind or something, but I don't see > anything in the man page about how it determines what is the user's > preferred application.
It's a simple bash script. There's no magic. Take a peek at it. -a
