Re: [O] org-open-file with xdg-open not working?

[Nick Dokos]

Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to open files externally (via org-attach), with a mailcap
> that funnels most everything to xdg-open. I notice that doing this with
> org-open-file gives me:
>
> Running xdg-open /home/me/path/to/file.PDF...done
>
> But no actual open file.
>
> Doing a similar thing in gnus, with the `gnus-mime-view-part-externally'
> command, gives me a similar message about xdg-open, but then the file
> actually opens.
>
> Presumably that's because the gnus version (eventually
> `mm-display-external') calls xdg-open with `call-process' and org does
> it with `start-process-shell-command'. The first is synchronous, the
> second asynchronous, and I do remember seeing something on one of these
> lists about difficulties with xdg-open because the process returns
> before the file actually opens, or *doesn't* return, or some similar
> thing the details of which I'm forgetting.
>
> Have other people run into this difficulty?

Yes.

> How are you solving it?

By not using xdg-open: I tend to add explicit entries in my .mailcap instead.

-- 
Nick