GNU bug report logs - #44824
27.1; Org export as pdf and open file does not open it

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Message #73 received at 44824 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44824 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, gbiotti <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#44824: 27.1; Org export as pdf and open file does not open it
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:17:04 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> This doesn't work:
>> M-x shell RET xdg-open /tmp/test.pdf RET
>
> How about asking the xdg-open developers to help us figure out the
> reason?  Or, failing that, debug xdg-open in the problematic
> situations to find out what fails there and why?  E.g., could it be
> that it fails because stdin/stdout is a PTY? what happens if you bind
> process-connection-type to nil when starting the async subprocess?

I'm unable to reproduce the problem at all -- all the various ways of
calling xdg-open work fine for me (on this Debian bullseye laptop w/
Gnome Shell).

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