Really strange problem with evince PDF reader and .mutt directory
José María Mateos
chema at rinzewind.org
Sat Oct 19 21:36:52 UTC 2019
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:17:06 +0100 Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> Running 'evince ~/.mitt/fred.pdf' displays the PDF file successfully
> but running 'evince ~/.mutt/fred.pdf' produces a Permission Denied
> message in a pop-up window. All directory names I have tried other
> than .mutt allow the PDF file to be read.
>
> Has anyone else here seen anything like this? It would seem that it's
> an error in evince but of some relevance to mutt use.
I can't reproduce this on my end. I copied a PDF file in my ~/.mutt
directory and all these options work:
$ evince test.pdf (from inside ~/.mutt)
$ evince .mutt/test.pdf (from my home directory)
$ evince ~/.mutt/test.pdf (same)
Cheers,
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