Hi John, there have been several threads to this concern. Maybe searching them helps a little (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/). This here seemed to help in a similar case (~/.mailcap):
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2007-09/msg00534.html Regards, Sebastian John Rakestraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hi -- >> >> I think this is not specifically an org-mode issue, but it shows up in >> org. >> >> I've started using the file attachment feature. I really like the way >> it works, except that it doesn't work consistently with pdf files on >> one of my computers. I can attach a pdf easily, but when I try to open >> the attachment from org-mode, acroread opens as expected but it >> doesn't open the file -- instead, I have an empty acroread window >> (the same window I get if I open acroread from the command line with >> no file specified). The program is run, but somehow the file name >> isn't passed to the program. >> >> I'm puzzled because it works as expected on my other primary computer, >> and both computers have basically the emacs and org-mode same set-up >> -- i.e., .emacs and the org-configuration files are identical. (I know >> they're identical because they're synched between computers.) So >> there's some other setting that's off. I'm hoping that someone can >> give me a hint where to look. I've come up empty in my searches. >> >> Set-up on both computers: >> - emacs 22.2.1 >> - org 6.12trans >> - Fedora 8 >> - fvwm window manager > > Apologies for replying to my own message, but I forgot to say that when > I run "acroread some_file.pdf" from a terminal, acroread opens the file > as expected. -- Sebastian Rose, EMMA STIL - mediendesign, Niemeyerstr.6, 30449 Hannover Tel.: +49 (0)511 - 36 58 472 Fax: +49 (0)1805 - 233633 - 11044 mobil: +49 (0)173 - 83 93 417 Http: www.emma-stil.de _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
