Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes: >> 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
> I think those bug reports describe the problem precisely. I am also on > gnome and have much the same problem. 2 minutes research suggest that I cannot tell xdg-open to use another backend other than through environment variables, viz. BROWSER, DE, DESKTOP_SESSION. Unfortunately, I was not able to make this work by just setting the DESKTOP_SESSION in either the shell starting Emacs or via setenv. So I guess on could use an xdg-open alternative or hardcode programs in mailcap... Rasmus -- A page of history is worth a volume of logic
