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Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not ope
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Carsten Dominik |
Subject: |
Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file |
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Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:19:24 +0200 |
On 22.9.2013, at 10:49, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Matt Price <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:29:00PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sep 19, 2013, at 4:25 PM, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, this sounds useful.
>>>>> Next question: Maybe people who *are* on a Desktop environment will not
>>>>> like it if we force DE=generic onto them as well?
>>>>> Or would't that make a difference?
>>>>
>>>> I did some quick searching, this part is a bit murky. The generic way
>>>> of setting up default application associations with mime types is
>>>> through desktop files and ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list.
>>>>
>>>> Now XFCE and xdg-open both use this, I do not think this is true for
>>>> KDE, Gnome, or Gnome-like DEs though. So for desktops that have their
>>>> own config system, it is possible xdg-open's generic and the desktop
>>>> specific preference might not match.
>>>>
>>>> Some testing by other desktop users might be useful here. Maybe Matt
>>>> and Glyn can help here (CC'ed).
>>>>
>>>> To test:
>>>> 1. open directory with pdf/html/odt files in dired,
>>>> 2. put point on one of these files,
>>>> 2. run asynchronous shell command: `& DE=generic xdg-open RET'.
>>>>
>>>> Does it start your prefered application? If not, we should drop this
>>>> idea. If yes, maybe it is worth it.
>>>
>>>
>>> huh, I just tried it on a pdf file and an odt file, and nothing
>>> opened;vI just got a message that the process had finished, and an
>>> empty new Async Shell Command buffer. Is it possible I'm using a
>>> nonstandard xdg-open or something, or that the problem is otherwise
>>> related to my system? This is on ubuntu 13.-4, running unity.
>
> I'm not sure what is going wrong there. That said, all this seems
> rather fragile. The bug with gvfs-open has been there for over 3 years,
> and I don't think there is even a bug-report open for exo-open. It's
> probably best to drop the idea for now.
Too bad, but true. We will drop it for now, until there
is a better and more robust idea.
- Carsten
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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, 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, 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
- 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,
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- 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
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Jambunathan K, 2013/09/03
- Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Achim Gratz, 2013/09/03
- [O] bug#14605: bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Jambunathan K, 2013/09/03
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- Re: [O] bug#14605: bug#14605: bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file, Suvayu Ali, 2013/09/03