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Can't open books, suspect xdg-open
Hi, I hope this finds you well.
I'm having trouble opening books, any books, on calibre 2.49 on OpenSUSE Leap with XFCE. I get the following error message: Failed to open URI "file:///home/james/Calibre%20Library/Unknown/the%20c%20book%20(2)". Error when getting information for file '/home/james/Calibre%20Library/Unknown/the%20c%20book%20(2)': No such file or directory. The same thing happens for epubs and pdfs. Now I'm pretty sure it's related to xdg-open passing along %20 instead of handling the spaces properly. I found this post on this forum from a few years ago: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4&postcount=15 Unfortunately this is referencing LXDE not XFCE, and xdg-open seems to have changed anyway. uname-a: Linux linux-svb1 4.1.20-11-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 18 14:42:07 UTC 2016 (0a392b2) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I've searched around for this quite a bit before asking. Also maybe I should be filing a bug report somewhere, since this is a vanilla install from the repos for both xdg-utils and Calibre. Thanks in advance for your time! Last edited by Eoaka; 05-07-2016 at 02:00 AM. |
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I gave up on xdg-open a long time ago. Now in all my system, I just replace it with my own 100 line implementation. I suggest you do the same. Trying to get xdg-open to work with anything other than the major desktop environments is an exercise in needless frustration.
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This problem is completely unrelated to calibre.
Assuming your distro has the latest version of XFCE in their repos, you'll need to file a bug report for XFCE upstream, to get them to fix their dedicated file opener (exo-open) so it accepts urlencoded file:/// links. (calibre uses Qt's native functions for opening files, which simply pass urlencoded file:/// urls to xdg-open -- this is basic UI toolkit file management at its finest. ![]() ![]() AFAIK this was supposed to be fixed here and here, so unless they had another regression, this is your distro's fault for being out-of-date. (And a thread on MobileRead, here.) Last edited by eschwartz; 05-08-2016 at 12:19 AM. |
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Thanks a lot everyone for taking the time to look at this. I appreciate it!
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Sorry to bump this, but I wanted to post my solution in case anyone else runs into this.
For whatever reason openSUSE is behind with exo-open on both tumbleweed and leap. To get around this I built exo-0.10.7 from source, installed exo-open and and everything works. |
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