> 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 <sbbrouwer@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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