On 28 March 2013 13:35, Joseph Rushton Wakeling < joseph.wakeling@webdrake.net> wrote:

> Calling gdmd -man is supposed to open the default browser and load the user documentation.  However, on my system (Ubuntu 13.04, Unity interface) the command fails with the errors:
>
>   Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"KDE_FULL_SESSION"} in string eq at
> /opt/gdc/bin/gdmd line 289.
>   Can't exec "gnome-open": No such file or directory at /opt/gdc/bin/gdmd
> line 297.
>
> I'm not familiar with perl so can't readily debug, but it obviously
> relates to
> the following function:
>
> sub browse($) {
>     my ($url) = @_;
>     my @cmd;
>
>     if ($^O =~ m/MSWin32/i) {
>         @cmd = qw(cmd /c start);
>     } elsif ($^O =~ m/darwin/i &&
>              -x '/usr/bin/open') { # MacOS X vs. just Darwin
>         @cmd = 'open';
>     } elsif ($ENV{KDE_FULL_SESSION} eq 'true') {
>         @cmd = qw(kfmclient exec);
>     } elsif ($ENV{GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID} ne '') {
>         @cmd = 'gnome-open';
>     } else {
>         errorExit "Sorry, I do not know how to start your browser.\nManual
> URL:
> $url"
>     }
>     push @cmd, $url;
>     system @cmd;
>     print "Opening documentation page.";
>     exit 0;
> }
>
> ... and looks likely to be down to out-of-date or buggy calls to
> environment
> variables.  The closest I was able to find searching online were these
> issues in
> xgamer:
> https://code.google.com/p/xgamer/issues/detail?id=8
> https://code.google.com/p/xgamer/issues/detail?id=9
>
> ... but it's not obvious what the fix referred to was.
>
> There's no gnome-open on my system (or available in repos) so I presume
> this is
> an old GNOME 2 command that's been removed?
>
>
$ echo $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated

$ which gnome-open
/usr/bin/gnome-open


Guess the detection method is deprecated, but the open command still exists...

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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On 03/28/2013 06:06 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> $ echo $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated

Yup, same on my system (actually it just prints this-is-deprecated).

> $ which gnome-open
> /usr/bin/gnome-open
> 
> Guess the detection method is deprecated, but the open command still exists...

Not on my system -- there's no /usr/bin/gnome-open and calling which gnome-open results in no output.  (I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 as said before.)

On 28 March 2013 17:29, Joseph Rushton Wakeling < joseph.wakeling@webdrake.net> wrote:

> On 03/28/2013 06:06 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> > $ echo $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
>
> Yup, same on my system (actually it just prints this-is-deprecated).
>
> > $ which gnome-open
> > /usr/bin/gnome-open
> >
> > Guess the detection method is deprecated, but the open command still
> exists...
>
> Not on my system -- there's no /usr/bin/gnome-open and calling which
> gnome-open
> results in no output.  (I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 as said before.)
>
>
Well, you could follow the other methods of determining desktop and cycle through the typical linux commands found:

eg:
----
    if ($^O =~ m/MSWin32/i) {
        @cmd = qw(cmd /c start);
    } elsif ($^O =~ m/darwin/i &&
             -x '/usr/bin/open') { # MacOS X vs. just Darwin
        @cmd = 'open';
    } elsif (-x '/usr/bin/kfmclient') {
        @cmd = qw(kfmclient exec);
    } elsif (-x '/usr/bin/gnome-open') {
        @cmd = 'gnome-open';
    } elsif (-x '/usr/bin/gvfs-open) {
        @cmd = 'gvfs-open';
    } elsif (-x '/usr/bin/xdg-open') {
        @cmd = 'xdg-open';
    } else {
        errorExit "Sorry, I do not know how to start your browser.\nManual
URL: $url"
    }
----


Regards

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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