It looks like it is fixed in testing and unstable (version 0.10.7-1).
Note that it was also a bug in xdg-open from the xdg-utils package.
On 01/24/2015 06:55 PM, Douglas N Arnold wrote:
Hello: I found your bug report concerning exo-open at
This bug occurs for me as well, and is a regular annoyance.
When downloading papers published by Springer, they are given
names (by Springer) like 10.1007%2Fs00211-014-0636-y.pdf
which always contain a percent sign. If I click on
the link to the downloaded file in my browser, instead
of getting
Package: exo-utils
Version: 0.10.2-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Filenames that contain % signs cannot be opened by exo-open. For example,
exo-open '/tmp/%.pdf'
will fail with the error:
Failed to open URI file:///tmp/%.pdf.
Operation not supported.
The filetype does not
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