On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 06:39:40PM +1100, Tim Cross wrote:
>
> Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:
>
> > Eli Zaretskii writes:
> >
> >>> This doesn't work:
> >>> M-x shell RET xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf RET
> >>
> >> How about asking the xdg-open developers to help us figure out the
> >> reason? Or, failing
Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
>>> This doesn't work:
>>> M-x shell RET xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf RET
>>
>> How about asking the xdg-open developers to help us figure out the
>> reason? Or, failing that, debug xdg-open in the problematic
>> situations to find out what fails
On 27/01/2021 10:36, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
Executing the command "xdg-open /path/to/file.pdf" in a terminal
(Konsole) works.
The problem may be related to SIGHUP sent to children due to pty created
by emacs and closed as soon as the handler exits:
https://orgmode.org/list/ru4d75$11sc$1.