[Gambas-user] Desktop.Open bug

Jussi Lahtinen jussi.lahtinen at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 04:16:58 CEST 2020


Of course, that is its purpose. I forgot to add that I have cinnamon
desktop.


Jussi

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 5:05 AM Bruce <adamnt42 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 23/6/20 11:14 am, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
> > The script does different things on different systems. I ran it on linux
> > Mint 19.3.
> > It seems on this system xdg-open does not have "wait" argument and if
> this
> > (
> >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46736478/perl-wait-for-xdg-open-to-quit-before-continuing
> > ) can be trusted, it is not easy to do.
> >
> >
> > Jussi
>
> Also note that xdg-open bases it's selection on what to use to open a
> file or url by which desktop is in operation.
>
> I have xdg-open version 1.1.3 which appears to operate correctly for all
> the tests I can think of on a MATE desktop.
>
> b
>
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