Le 22 Jan 2026, Max Nikulin <[email protected]> a écrit : > On 22/01/2026 6:20 am, Victor A. Stoichita wrote: >> cat /usr/local/share/applications/emacsclient.desktop >> [Desktop Entry] > [...] >> MimeType=text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-java;text/x-moc;text/x-pascal;text/x-tcl;text/x-tex;application/x-shellscript;text/x-c;text/x-c++;x-scheme-handler/org-protocol; >> Exec=sh -c "if [ -n \\"\\$*\\" ]; then exec /usr/local/bin/emacsclient >> --alternate-editor= --reuse-frame \\"\\$@\\"; else exec emacsclient >> --alternate-editor= --create-frame; fi" sh %F > > %F causes failure, it should be %U. You may edit a copy the file > placed into e.g. ~/.local/share/applications > > <https://debbugs.gnu.org/74467> > org-protocol emacsclient.desktop change is not fully functional
%F was the culprit indeed! Changed to %U and it works! I had read about that bug which is referenced from https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html But maybe the explanation there could be slightly improved. The worg page says: > On GNU/Linux, Emacs 29.2+ configures emacsclient.desktop to handle Org > Protocol URL requests. If your GUI window environment can use this > file, no further setup is required. (NOTE: This is not true for some > distributions of xdg-tools as reported in the bug #74467 - 31.0.50; > org-protocol emacsclient.desktop change is not fully functional - GNU > bug report logs.) It is not clear what "some distributions of xdg-tools means" (and I failed to understand it from the bug report as well). I’m on Debian stable. The worg page does not clearly say what to do in that case. I tried applying what was said below regarding Emacs < 30 (create the org-protocol.desktop file…), but that didn’t work either (perhaps because it has %u not %U ?). If I may suggest, the paragraph could read: > On GNU/Linux, Emacs 29.2+ configures emacsclient.desktop to handle Org > Protocol URL requests. If your GUI window environment can use this > file, no further setup is required. > However on some distributions of xdg-tools (such as Debian Trixie ?), > a manual change in emacsclient.desktop is required. Because of bug > #74467 - 31.0.50; "org-protocol emacsclient.desktop change is not > fully functional", xdg-open might open an emacsclient frame, without > passing it the org-protocol arguments. A workaround for this is to > replace %F with %U on the Exec lines of emacsclient.desktop. Thanks again, Max and Christian, for the hints! Victor
