Really strange problem with evince PDF reader and .mutt directory
nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt
nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt
Sun Oct 20 08:25:46 UTC 2019
On 2019-10-19, José María Mateos wrote:
> 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,
Any chance this is the same issue Marcelo Laia reported earlier this
year?
(see the thread starting with Message-ID:
<20190118120629.GE5678 at localhost>, from 2019-01-18)
In that case, evince was being started from mutt, and the issue happened
with other applications as well.
URL of a web copy of the mentioned thread, at marc.info:
https://marc.info/?t=154781327600002&r=1&w=2
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Nuno Silva
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