Hi Eric, On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:07:17AM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: > 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.
I think that is expected. The bug is in the desktop specific open commands. Since you use none, generic open is used. That is simply a shell function, and does the right thing. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
