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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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Cheers, |
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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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