Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes: [...]
> I need some feedback from users using different desktop environments. [...] > 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, One more data point. I don't use a desktop environment as such. I use /ratpoison/ as my window manager. In my use case, on a system running Ubuntu 13.04, xdg-open works perfectly fine, both synchronously (!) and asynchronously (&), for all three file types listed above, bringing up evince, libreoffice and firefox respectively. HTH, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.50.1, Org release_8.1.1-7-gaecdf5
