Thanks David
Short-ish answer: I still can't get point and click to work in Xfce4 with *any* editor. Invoking the clicked pdf links from a GUI seems blocked in some way: the embedded links open correctly from the terminal with Geany and Gvim/Vim. However, the exact same instructions work under Gnome. I'm not wedded to Xfce so I gave up and built a new Gnome VM. On 14 December 2020 at 3:33, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: That's good. I assume you've managed to set LYEDITOR as a global environment variable, thanks for the heads-up there - that helps If and when you get it running, check that it's compiled with the server option by running vim -h (not always so). the Vim bundled with Arch was not complied with server option, but their Gvim package includes a Vim binary which is. So... Invoke vim with $ vim --servername gvim now works From the link you posted, xpdf v4 seems a dead duck for handling textedit URLs. xpdf4 opens the embedded :textedit links correctly in Gnome via xdg-open, so it doesn't need version 3's urlCommand option. Thanks again for wading through all this, it's a lot clearer now. Damian
