"View PDF" not opening PDF, but instead opens the file manager in the PDF directory
As described in the title.
The behaviour of Zotero is the same when both selecting "View PDF" and "Show file".
I am not sure what is wrong here, but for some time, the "View PDF" option really did open the file in the (system wide) designated application - Evince.
This happens with every PDF file in zotero (I did not test all of them, but in a sample of 15 files, they all displayed the same symptoms).
I have tried the steps in the KB (https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/file_handling_issues#pdfs_opening_in_wrong_application_on_gnulinux_systems) and in several forum posts, such as (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/34136/linux-open-in-external-viewer-in-ff-opens-default-file-manager-rather-than-pdf-tool/).
None of them seemed to help.
I have, however, done what is recommended in the KB, and enabled debugging output, and triggered the error.
The error log is short (23 lines) and the Debug ID is D207062930.
The path string seems to be passed correctly, and I don't see any obvious errors in the log, but I have never debugged Zotero logs before.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
The behaviour of Zotero is the same when both selecting "View PDF" and "Show file".
I am not sure what is wrong here, but for some time, the "View PDF" option really did open the file in the (system wide) designated application - Evince.
This happens with every PDF file in zotero (I did not test all of them, but in a sample of 15 files, they all displayed the same symptoms).
I have tried the steps in the KB (https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/file_handling_issues#pdfs_opening_in_wrong_application_on_gnulinux_systems) and in several forum posts, such as (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/34136/linux-open-in-external-viewer-in-ff-opens-default-file-manager-rather-than-pdf-tool/).
None of them seemed to help.
I have, however, done what is recommended in the KB, and enabled debugging output, and triggered the error.
The error log is short (23 lines) and the Debug ID is D207062930.
The path string seems to be passed correctly, and I don't see any obvious errors in the log, but I have never debugged Zotero logs before.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
This is ArchLinux. I'm using Gnome-shell as my main DE, but under Enlightenment the issue still occurrs.
Yes, and it did not work for me.
Would a debug log **after** deleting that file and restarting Zotero be of any use?
Humm... is there any way I can debug what happens **after** the launch() call?
Anyway I can see what program launch() is calling at least?
I suppose if it is a system setting thing I can quickly get to the bottom of it.
I'll start with that and go from there.
Thanks for the (extremely quick, I might add) assistance!
I'll report back when it's solved.
Cheers!
I have reverted to using "enlightenment_open" which seems to successfully work around the problem at least until "gvfs-open" is fixed.
Thanks for your input!
Everything is now normal.
Once again, thank you for the input. It really helped narrow down the cause.