On Linux, there separate programmes for KDE, new gnome and old gnome, and desktop-agnostic: kde-open myfile.pdf || gvfs-open myfile.pdf || gnome-open myfile.pdf || xdg-open myfile.pdf
On my linux mint/debian boxes, xdg-open works fine across MATE, XFCE, and
KDE.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Sietse Brouwer
Instead of choosing our own default PDF viewer, we should probably invoke the user's default PDF viewer. Every OS has a command-line program to open a file with the system default program:
On OS X: open myfile.pdf
On Windows: start myfile.pdf
On Linux, there separate programmes for KDE, new gnome and old gnome, and desktop-agnostic: kde-open myfile.pdf || gvfs-open myfile.pdf || gnome-open myfile.pdf || xdg-open myfile.pdf
Cheers, Sietse
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