On 11/05/2012 10:00 AM, Kayvan Sylvan wrote:
In the Fedora distribution lyx packages, an xdg-open patch is applied
and the resulting lyx seems to work correctly.
Can you post that patch?
rh
On Nov 5, 2012, at 1:34, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote:
Le 05/11/2012 03:51, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :
xdg-open tries to open a file with the "preferred" application of a
user for that file on Linux (which is usually the application that is
used when you double click on a file in your desktop environment). I
think the command "open" on Mac does the same thing. I'm guessing
there's a similar Windows command?
Note that for Mac OS and Windows, we already use the system's API. See
AutoOpen stuff in os_(unix|win32).cpp. Unfortunately, no such API exists
for linux.
Adding support for these could be a solution to common questions I see such as:
"why does LyX open pdf files with Okular when I want it to open with Evince"
and similar complaints.
You have seen in the 2008 discussion what the problems were at the time.
It might be worth revisiting this problem now and see whether
run-mailcap or xdg-open could be used these days.
JMarc
