From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Two problems with xdg-open
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:25:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1266035107.195954.0.camel@centar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100213002356.GA17188@math.princeton.edu>
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:23 -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
> Hi list:
>
> What exactly is xdg-open and how to I configure it to do what I want?
>
> The question came up because I am using jabref, a Java based bibtex
> management system. On my home machine, when I tried to open a PDF
> file, java throws a file-not-found error on "xdg-open". But I have
> xdg-utils installed, and xdg-open is found in /usr/bin. Right now I
> have gotten around the problem by configuring jabref explicitly to use
> xpdf to load PDF files. For all I know this is probably a
> environment/PATH issue in the load script for jabref.
>
> I took a look at the man page for xdg-open, and find the concept
> intriguing. The idea seems useful. But how does one go about "setting
> the default" programs for various documents?
>
> If I try to issue "xdg-open file.pdf", it tries to load firefox, which
> then asks me where to save the pdf file. This is rather obviously not
> the desired behaviour. Maybe I'm blind or something, but I don't see
> anything in the man page about how it determines what is the user's
> preferred application.
It's a simple bash script. There's no magic. Take a peek at it.
-a
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-13 4:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-13 0:23 [gentoo-user] Two problems with xdg-open Willie Wong
2010-02-13 4:25 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2010-02-13 10:31 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-13 10:41 ` Alan McKinnon
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