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Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not ope
From: |
Carsten Dominik |
Subject: |
Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:49:43 +0200 |
On Sep 19, 2013, at 4:25 PM, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:36:52AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:24:51AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>
>>> On 19.9.2013, at 06:34, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On 18.9.2013, at 14:14, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> I think that is expected. The bug is in the desktop specific open
>>>>>> commands. Since you use none, generic open is used. That is simply a
>>>>>> shell function, and does the right thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a generic open command in Linux? Why don't we use this instead?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not really. There is a shell function called open_generic inside of
>>>> xdg-open. I believe that's what Suvayu was referring to. But there is
>>>> no clean way of calling it, short of pulling it out of the xdg-open
>>>> script into a new script: as a general solution, that's hopeless.
>>>
>>> All right. Too bad. Thank you.
>>
>> Nick said it accurately. It is part of the xdg-open script.
>
> I have some good news (sort of). We can force generic open by calling
> xdg-open like this[1]:
>
> DE=generic xdg-open /path/to/file
Hi Suvayu,
interesting! How does this work? Is this setting an environment variable DE
before it is run?
The syntax looks unfamiliar to me.
- Carsten
>
> I tested this with
>
> (start-process-shell-command "DE=generic xdg-open test.html"
> nil "DE=generic xdg-open test.html")
>
> and it works well. Do you think this is acceptable?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Footnotes:
>
> [1] <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653249#c20>
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, (continued)
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/18
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Glyn Millington, 2013/09/19
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Glyn Millington, 2013/09/18
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Eric S Fraga, 2013/09/18
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Suvayu Ali, 2013/09/18
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/18
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Nick Dokos, 2013/09/19
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/19
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Suvayu Ali, 2013/09/19
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Suvayu Ali, 2013/09/19
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file,
Carsten Dominik <=
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Suvayu Ali, 2013/09/20
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/20
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Suvayu Ali, 2013/09/20
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- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Matt Price, 2013/09/20
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Suvayu Ali, 2013/09/22
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/22
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Glyn Millington, 2013/09/17
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Matt Price, 2013/09/17
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Glyn Millington, 2013/09/18
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Matt Price, 2013/09/17