Subject: Re: bug#9779: No usable browser found on Lubuntu

From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:53:10 +0200

Hi.

18 okt 2011 kl. 10:12 skrev Lawrence Mitchell:

> Juri Linkov wrote:
> 
>>> Better would be if we can use xdg-open.  Could you check if xdg-open
>>> works, and if so, how to adjust browse-url-can-use-xdg-open accordingly?
> 
>> `browse-url-can-use-xdg-open' returns nil.  Below are expressions
>> from this function and results of their evaluation:
> 
>> (getenv "DISPLAY")
>> => ":0"
> 
>> (executable-find "xdg-open")
>> => "/usr/bin/xdg-open"
> 
>> (executable-find "nohup")
>> => "/usr/bin/nohup"
> 
> I note that since 22-Jun-2011 browse-url-xdg-open no longer uses
> nohup.  This is either a mistake on my part (I didn't read the
> comment in browse-url-can-use-xdg-open) or it is indeed
> unnecessary and therefore isn't a requirement for xdg-open.
> 

See discussion at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-07/msg00279.html.
nohup is still needed for xdg-open.

	Jan D.