Hi, On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:31:41PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On 17.9.2013, at 22:21, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I can consistently repeat this outside of Org. I am trying with > > `dired-do-shell-command'. > > > > Steps: > > 1) (dired-do-shell-command "xdg-open" nil '("file.pdf")), the script > > runs and opens the pdf file. > > 2) (dired-do-shell-command "xdg-open &" nil '("file.pdf")), this runs > > the script too but the pdf is not opened. > > > > (I know the scripts run because I turned on debugging in the scripts) > > > > I'm assuming Org opens it asynchronously. What lisp function does Org > > use? > > Org used start-process-shell-command, and this happens in > org-open-file, which is called for links to a file in org-open-at-point.
I need some feedback from users using different desktop environments. What DEs do you use, Matt, Glyn? I am on XFCE. For me xdg-open calls the internal function (defined in the script), open_xfce. Inside that function, exo-open is called. This is XFCE specific. When I replace exo-open with say, evince, and open a pdf file; start-process-shell-command works; with exo-open it doesn't. I can repeat this for html files with Firefox. I would like to know if other desktop environments has the same issue: kde-open (KDE) and gvfs-open (Gnome, Mate, etc). So to test, just open a directory with pdf/odt/html files in dired and run either of them asynchronously with &. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.