On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:06:04AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-22, Wu, Yue wrote: > > Hi, list, > > > > I have a weird issue, my mailcap has this entry: > > > > text/html; opera '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" > > > > But I still can't view the html attachment, opera always shows me a blank > > html > > file. What's wrong? > > Is opera running in the foreground or in the background? In other > words, when opera is attempting to display an attachment, is mutt > unresponsive to the keyboard or can you still control it? If opera > is running in the background so that you can still control mutt > while opera is running, then the problem is probably that mutt is > clearing and deleting the file before opera has had a chance to read > it. You'll need to either delay mutt's clearing of the file, e.g., > by putting a sleep command after opera's invocation, or copy the > file before starting opera and running opera on the copy. You can > find out more here: > > http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#background > > A simpler solution would be to have mutt deliver the attachment to > opera's standard input, if that's possible with opera.
Hi, Gray, I have tried your website with "sleep 5", it doesn't work also :( opera is running in the background. -- Hi, Wu, Yue
