Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > Presumably that's because the gnus version (eventually > `mm-display-external') calls xdg-open with `call-process' and org does > it with `start-process-shell-command'. The first is synchronous, the > second asynchronous, and I do remember seeing something on one of these > lists about difficulties with xdg-open because the process returns > before the file actually opens, or *doesn't* return, or some similar > thing the details of which I'm forgetting. > > Have other people run into this difficulty? How are you solving it?
I remember having problems which I was able to solve by changing the value of process-connection-type to nil. Does that work for you ? -- Nico.