this link "zotero://open-pdf/... " is not working

surenazolfaghari

Report ID: 1492106395
Hello
I am using the beta version (newest) of Zotero. I extracted annotations, but when I imported a link like "zotero://open-pdf/library/items/3YT77KXE?page=19&annotation=VEYZPR7W" on liber office or obsidian. This link is not active and not working. I'm on ubuntu 20.04

warguelles

For Obsidian, you will need to disable the Setup > Editor > "Auto convert HTML" option in the Obsidian setup

surenazolfaghari

Thank you @warguelles but it did not fixed
I checked it, but it did not solve the problem. The link is created, books are loaded in obsidian, but the pdf did not open when I clicked the link. when I click a windows shows "No apps installed that can open "zotero://select/library/items ..." you can find more applications in software."

surenazolfaghari

I go stable version and install with the deb file and fix this problem. when I click to link on embedded on obsidian. This opens pdf file but the page jumps. for instance, I linked to 222 but the Zotero open in 218. If I go to obsidian and again click to link that I mentioned then zotero opens in 222. it is undesirable. please check this and that @dstillman

Li_Rui0

Did you solve this problem, @surenazolfaghari ? I also encountered the same problem. After I add 'zotero://select/library/items/AX6E3JAK' in Microsoft word, click the link, it will open my edge browser, but it's just a blank page. If I insert the link '[test](zotero://select/library/items/AX6E3JAK)' in obsidian, click the link, it won't jump to zotero, and there is no prompt.

WasserWissen

For future readers, I could open links like [pdf](zotero://open-pdf....) from Obsidian by deleting the zotero.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications and keeping the one in usr/share/applications (https://forum.obsidian.md/t/problem-opening-zotero-links/11613/13?u=traumzettel)

andreasherrmann

I was experiencing the same issue as described by Li_Rio0 above on Ubuntu 22.04. I tried the zotero-deb package and double checked all the mime settings to no avail.

By running Obsidian in a terminal I finally observed that it tried but failed to open Zotero with the error "Error: cannot open display: :0". The reason, it turned out, was that I had configured Obsidian to run with Wayland support enabled (to get crisp font rendering on fractionally scaled displays) and Zotero version 6 does not work under Wayland.

Obsidian was configured to use Wayland through a wrapper script that ran
`exec env OBSIDIAN_USE_WAYLAND=1 ".../obsidian.AppImage" -enable-features=UseOzonePlatform -ozone-platform=wayland "$@"`. This somehow caused Obsidian to try to start Zotero in Wayland mode, which does not work.

The fix was to export `GDK_BACKEND=x11` when running Zotero. The way I did it was to edit the Desktop file (/usr/share/applications/zotero.desktop with zotero-deb) to modify the Exec line to `Exec=/usr/bin/env GDK_BACKEND=x11 /usr/lib/zotero/zotero --url %u`.