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On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:23 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: |
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> Hi list: |
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> What exactly is xdg-open and how to I configure it to do what I want? |
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> The question came up because I am using jabref, a Java based bibtex |
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> management system. On my home machine, when I tried to open a PDF |
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> file, java throws a file-not-found error on "xdg-open". But I have |
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> xdg-utils installed, and xdg-open is found in /usr/bin. Right now I |
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> have gotten around the problem by configuring jabref explicitly to use |
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> xpdf to load PDF files. For all I know this is probably a |
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> environment/PATH issue in the load script for jabref. |
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> I took a look at the man page for xdg-open, and find the concept |
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> intriguing. The idea seems useful. But how does one go about "setting |
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> the default" programs for various documents? |
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> If I try to issue "xdg-open file.pdf", it tries to load firefox, which |
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> then asks me where to save the pdf file. This is rather obviously not |
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> the desired behaviour. Maybe I'm blind or something, but I don't see |
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> anything in the man page about how it determines what is the user's |
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> preferred application. |
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It's a simple bash script. There's no magic. Take a peek at it. |
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