On May 20, 2015 1:43 PM, "Suvayu Ali" <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 01:21:34PM +0200, Rasmus wrote: > > Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:50:03AM +0200, Rasmus wrote: > > >> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> > > > > > >> > Do you have a mailcap which says otherwise? That's what I would suspect > > >> > given the doc string for org-file-apps and the default value of > > >> > org-file-apps-defaults-gnu on my system. > > >> > > >> I have this in my mailcap > > >> > > >> application/msword; antiword %s; > > >> application/pdf; evince %s; > > >> application/vnd.lotus-organizer; emacsclient -ca '' %s; > > >> application/zip file-roller %s; > > >> > > >> Org does not open my html and odt files. It does open pdf files. This is > > >> using emacs -q. I use Gnome 3.16 and xdg-open works as expected from the > > >> terminal. > > > > > > There should also be a system-wide setting in /etc/mailcap. On my > > > Fedora machine, the system-wide settings all look like this: > > > > > > text/html; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s ; copiousoutput > > > > > > If yours doesn't, you could override it in ~/.mailcap. If that doesn't > > > fix things, I'm out of ideas :-|. > > > > Now it get the message > > > > Running /usr/bin/xdg-open /tmp/test.html ...done > > > > But it doesn't actually open the file... The same happens when I mark the > > file in dired and says & xdg-open. From the terminal it works fine. > > You are on Gnome, rt? I think there is a long standing "bug" in > gvfs-open (which is called by xdg-open). > > See the following: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-07/msg00279.html > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652262 > > I came across this a long time ago trying to investigate why xdg-open > didn't work when running asynchronously like your example. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/93430 > > Hope this helps, > > -- > Suvayu
I think those bug reports describe the problem precisely. I am also on gnome and have much the same problem. > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. >
