Carsten Dominik <[email protected]> writes: > On 18.9.2013, at 14:14, Suvayu Ali <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> 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. > > Is there a generic open command in Linux? Why don't we use this instead? >
Not really. There is a shell function called open_generic inside of xdg-open. I believe that's what Suvayu was referring to. But there is no clean way of calling it, short of pulling it out of the xdg-open script into a new script: as a general solution, that's hopeless. -- Nick
