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

[Glyn Millington]

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> On 17.9.2013, at 15:56, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:04:45AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
>>> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On 17.9.2013, at 08:01, Matt Price <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Matt Price <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Achim Gratz <address@hidden>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Or you could leave it in and see who complains.  The instances
>>>>>>> where xdg-open doesn't work or is not correctly configured will
>>>>>>> probably be in multi-user / corporate environments where it is
>>>>>>> unlikely that the newest Org or Emacs is installed anyway.
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm running today's org with a recent emacs-snapshot in a
>>>>>> single-user linux environment (ubuntu 13.04).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> xdg-open xxx.html works fine when run from the command line, but
>>>>>> from inside org-mode it seems to fail to run In particular,
>>>>>> html, odt and pdf documents no longer seem to open from the
>>>>>> export menu, even though the log in *Messages* reports that the
>>>>>> relevant command ("xdg-open-my-org-file.html") has been run.
>>>>  Is there anyone else who has tried the xgd-open way to follow
>>>> links with Org?
>>>> 
>>>  Yes, I have the same symptoms as Matt.
>>> 
>>> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.2)
>>> Org-mode 8.1.1 (the latest ELPA package fails in the same way)
>>> 
>>> xdg-open works on the command line but not through the org-export
>>> menu - pdfs and html files don't open automatically.  There are no
>>> error messages.
>>  I see the same problem.  But I think this might be an Emacs issue;
>> I can't open a pdf from dired either (with & on a pdf file).
>> However I can open it if I execute a shell command: M-! xdg-open
>> file.pdf RET.
>
> Do I need to conclude that, for the time being, xdg-open has to be
> removed from the default value of org-file-apps?

That did the trick - pdf files now open as before, as do html exports.

Many thanks.

atb




Glyn