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bug#9779: No usable browser found on Lubuntu


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#9779: No usable browser found on Lubuntu
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:09:22 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> (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.

Do you think it should be removed with its comment that says:

       ;; xdg-open may call gnome-open and that does not wait for its child
       ;; to finish.  This child may then be killed when the parent dies.
       ;; Use nohup to work around.




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