According to mate, the "gvfs-open" command is no longer a mate-fork, but part
of gnome.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-vfs/issues/6#issuecomment-128310994
Furthermore, within the Gnome (Unity) environment, running the command
"gvfs-open http://www.bbc.co.uk";
opens the BBC webpage as we
One more thing that may help; I read through the source of xdg-open, and the
open_mate() function calls gvfs-open.
If I run the command:
gvfs-open "http://www.bbc.co.uk";
then I get, as before, the new window with the ubuntu-start-content.
Looking at the other underlying commands within xdg-op
Hello Brian, Thanks for your comment.
If I type the following command at the shell:
xdg-open "http://www.bbc.co.uk";
Then I get a newly opened, maximised Firefox window, which opens a blank page
(the Ubuntu start page, exactly as if within Firefox, I had pressed Ctrl+N.)
However, if I run eit
Oh, and using ubuntu-bug works fine for me and opens a tab in Firefox on
Vivid.
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Apport first tries to use xdg-open as we can see below:
try:
subprocess.call(sudo_prefix + ['xdg-open', url])
except OSError as e:
# fall back to webbrowser
webbrowser.open(url, new=True, autoraise=True)
sys.ex
