Bug 36126

Summary: xdg-open "waits" on LXDE
Product: Portland Reporter: snafu <urxmurx>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 1.1.0 rc1   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description snafu 2011-04-11 00:41:45 UTC 
I use xdg-open 1.1.0 rc1 on a Linux Mint 10 LXDE system. When running it on Ubuntu 10.10 (Gnome) before, xdg-open did immediately exit after the specified file had been opened, but now it waits until the file type's associated program has been exited. That behaviour is a bit annoying, since I rely on xdg-open functionality (in particular: its exit code) inside a project and so it makes my program block on LXDE until the user closes the invoked program. It should not be a LXDE problem, since calling pcmanfm directly works as expected. It would be fine if that could be fixed, so that I don't need to implement some kind of ugly workaround for that. :-)
Comment 1 snafu 2011-04-13 22:47:47 UTC 
Found the reason: DE detection doesn't work here. Linux Mint is putting the value ``Mint`` to ``$DESTOP_SESSION``, while xdg-open checks for ``LXDE``.
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2011-04-14 07:36:30 UTC 
waiting or not is dependant upon the helpers used, so I wouldn't assume behavior either way, see also bug #16295

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16295 ***
Comment 3 snafu 2011-04-14 14:15:57 UTC 
There still is the issue about LXDE detection. Should I better separate this into a new bug?

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