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If I type
gnome-open foo.pdf
it shows an error for me: Error showing url: Operation not supported. But if I give absolute path
gnome-open ~/what/ever/foo.pdf
it works fine.
Is this a known limitation or a bug?
lang2
Posted 2013-06-20T02:31:13.153
Reputation: 1 830
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My comment was correct. If Ubuntu supports xdg-open (most distros do, but I haven't tested it), you can just do the following:
xdg-open foo.pdf
It also won't complain if you give it the full path.
xdg-open ~/what/ever/foo.pdf
Piccolo
Posted 2013-06-20T02:31:13.153
Reputation: 212
I may be wrong, but I think the command
xdg-opencan open relative URLs. Opening my Linux virtual machine right now. – Piccolo – 2013-06-20T02:39:41.8371Odd, something must be wrong with your system as
gnome-openshould work as it is used in your first example and does do so on my system. – Dan D. – 2013-06-20T03:24:32.780