Tim Cross writes on Sun 19 Aug 2018 12:31: > > Given the problem appears to only occur with older setups which are > using an external PDF viewer, he problem might be with the xdg settings > on the system. The line > > Running /usr/bin/xdg-open /home/cochard/tmp/scr.pdf...done > > might be worth more investigation. What program is xdg using to open PDF > files? What happens if you try to run that viewer manually on the PDF > file?
When running the command /usr/bin/xdg-open /home/cochard/tmp/scr.pdf from a standard linux terminal or a shell terminal within emacs (M-x shell) the file is open with evince. However nothing happens if doing it from an eshell terminal (M-x eshell). Also if I visit (C-x C-f) the file in emacs, it is displayed properly; the modeline says '(DocView)' If I add the line (setq process-connection-type nil) to my minimal .emacs, then, upon 'C-c C-e l o', the file does open, although not within emacs -- but with evince. So it does not fully solve the problem, but it is already a rather decent workaround for me. Thanks a lot! -- EOST (École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre) IPG (Institut de Physique du Globe) | alain.coch...@unistra.fr 5 rue René Descartes [bureau 106] | Phone: +33 (0)3 68 85 50 44 F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France | Fax: +33 (0)3 68 85 01 25
