I’m running the latest portable build and the gui fails for opening pdf’s. I have checked my xdg-open defaults, and
xdg-open “<my_pdf.pdf>”
works fine from the terminal. I am running jabref portable opened from the command line. But when I try to open a file through the jabref “open file” dialoge, I get a gui error box “Error–KIO Client <4> ?” → “Unknown host home: Host not found”
and the command line output is
Fail back to xdg-open
Setting the pdf external program under that option doesn’t change anything.
Thanks!
Is the problem only xdg-open or does it work if you specify another prefered program that can open pdfs?
What i found out is this:
"xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web browser. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files of that type. xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and https URLs."
Hence:
Your current setup is like this:
Jabref<>xdg-open<>pdfapplication
What you could do as workaround:
Jabref<>pdfapplication
I’m new to Jabref, and this has never worked for me. First it opened pdf’s in Mendeley and then when I changed xdg-open pdfapplication from the command line, it simply gives the error I listed. xdg-open works from every other app and from the command line.
Version 5.3
Which Linux dist are you using?
This might be related to
Cannot open PDF files in JabRef Snap · Issue #7762 · JabRef/jabref · GitHub
Does it work setting the OS default application, similar to
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