Really strange problem with evince PDF reader and .mutt directory

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 05:36:52PM -0400, 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)
> 
Thanks for trying it José, what version of evince are you running?
Mine is "GNOME Document Viewer 3.32.0".

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Chris Green