Re: TeX-documentation-texdoc

[Greg Bognar]

It turns out that C-u C-c? works: it opens a buffer with a list of related files
and then opens the selected one in my PDF viewer (okular).  It's only when I
call `TeX-documentation-texdoc' without a prefix argument that okular seems to
be started (a startup notification appears in the panel), but then disappears
and nothing happens.

texdoc itself has no problem starting the PDF viewer, and it seems all
`TeX-documentation-texdoc' does is calling it.  I don't understand why it works
with a prefix argument but not without one.

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On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 14:55 Greg Bognar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I run `TeX-documentation-texdoc' (from the menu or with C-c ?), nothing
> happens.  The mouse pointer does turn into busy, but it stops after a while.
> Nothing is written to *Messages* or to .xsession-errors.
> 
> The texdoc command works from the terminal, opening a PDF viewer with the
> requested document.
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is an AUCTeX, Emacs, or window manager issue.  Any
> ideas how I could find out what the problem is?
> 
> All the best,
> Greg