Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file

[Suvayu Ali]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:04:45AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On 17.9.2013, at 08:01, Matt Price <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Matt Price <address@hidden>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Achim Gratz <address@hidden>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>  Or you could leave it in and see who complains.  The instances
> >>>> where xdg-open doesn't work or is not correctly configured will
> >>>> probably be in multi-user / corporate environments where it is
> >>>> unlikely that the newest Org or Emacs is installed anyway.
> >>>  Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I'm running today's org with a recent emacs-snapshot in a
> >>> single-user linux environment (ubuntu 13.04).
> >>> 
> >>> xdg-open xxx.html works fine when run from the command line, but
> >>> from inside org-mode it seems to fail to run In particular, html,
> >>> odt and pdf documents no longer seem to open from the export menu,
> >>> even though the log in *Messages* reports that the relevant command
> >>> ("xdg-open-my-org-file.html") has been run.
> >
> > Is there anyone else who has tried the xgd-open way to follow links
> > with Org?
> >
> 
> Yes, I have the same symptoms as Matt.
> 
> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.2)
> Org-mode 8.1.1  (the latest ELPA package fails in the same way)
> 
> xdg-open works on the command line but not through the org-export menu -
> pdfs and html files don't open automatically.  There are no error messages.

I see the same problem.  But I think this might be an Emacs issue; I
can't open a pdf from dired either (with & on a pdf file).  However I
can open it if I execute a shell command: M-! xdg-open file.pdf RET.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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