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


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:49:43 +0200

On Sep 19, 2013, at 4:25 PM, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:36:52AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:24:51AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 19.9.2013, at 06:34, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 18.9.2013, at 14:14, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> I think that is expected.  The bug is in the desktop specific open
>>>>>> commands.  Since you use none, generic open is used.  That is simply a
>>>>>> shell function, and does the right thing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a generic open command in Linux?  Why don't we use this instead?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Not really. There is a shell function called open_generic inside of
>>>> xdg-open. I believe that's what Suvayu was referring to. But there is
>>>> no clean way of calling it, short of pulling it out of the xdg-open
>>>> script into a new script: as a general solution, that's hopeless.
>>> 
>>> All right.  Too bad.  Thank you.
>> 
>> Nick said it accurately.  It is part of the xdg-open script.
> 
> 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

Hi Suvayu,

interesting!  How does this work?  Is this setting an environment variable DE 
before it is run?
The syntax looks unfamiliar to me.

- Carsten

> 
> I tested this with
> 
>  (start-process-shell-command "DE=generic xdg-open test.html"
>                               nil "DE=generic xdg-open test.html")
> 
> and it works well.  Do you think this is acceptable?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Footnotes:
> 
> [1] <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653249#c20>
> 
> -- 
> Suvayu
> 
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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