Re: bug#44824: 27.1; Org export as pdf and open file does not open it

[Tim Cross]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 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 there and why?  E.g., could it be
>> that it fails because stdin/stdout is a PTY? what happens if you bind
>> process-connection-type to nil when starting the async subprocess?
>
> I'm unable to reproduce the problem at all -- all the various ways of
> calling xdg-open work fine for me (on this Debian bullseye laptop w/
> Gnome Shell).

For me, I get

M-! xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf works
M-x shell <ret> xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf works
M-& xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf fails
M-x eshell <ret> xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf fails

The two which fail do not report any error - just now pdf viewer open.

I also have no problems with org export menu when I choose export to pdf
and open.

This was on a Ubuntu 20.10, latest Emacs 27 (27.5.91), mate DE and
default shell zsh.

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Tim Cross