Re: using gnome-open with mailcap data

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> 2. Can I use gnome-open for this sort of thing? It's basically its own
>    little mime parser, and knows all the system defaults, and if I'm
>    going to pass a file to something outside of gnus/emacs, gnome-open
>    knows best what to do with it. Setting gnome-open in my .mailcap file
>    just gives me "Displaying /usr/bin/gnome-open
>    /tmp/emm.5971frN/IMG_3368.JPG...done" in the minibuffer, and then
>    nothing happens.

I think gnome-open returns too quickly and then Gnus deletes the
temporary file.  My hack to work around this is a script:

#!/bin/sh
gnome-open "$@"
sleep 5

I named this script "o", so it's very easy to call this on any random
file and it usually does something reasonable.

Dan