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

[Matt Price]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Glyn Millington
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 17.9.2013, at 15:56, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Do I need to conclude that, for the time being, xdg-open has to be
>> removed from the default value of org-file-apps?
>
> That did the trick - pdf files now open as before, as do html exports.


Glyn, can you just tell me what you set org-file-apps to? I wasn't
able to find a value that worked.  Thank you!

Matt