Bug#561785: texlive-base: texdoc does not use standard pdf-viewer defined in KDE
Package: texlive-base
Version: 2009-4
Severity: normal
Hallo!
When calling texdoc PACKAGENAME in KDE, the pdf description of the package is actually opened with GIMP, instead of using the KDE system-wide setting for the default pdf viewer, e.g. okular.
The problem arises due to a wrong selection of the application based on the existance of certain commands in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/scripts/texdoc/texdoc.tlu (starting from line 747):
viewer_pdf = first_in_path {
{'gnome-open', '(gnome-open %s) &'}, -- gnome
{'kde-open', '(kde-open %s) &'}, -- kde 4
{'kfmclient', '(kfmclient exec %s) &'}, -- older kde
{'exo-open', '(exo-open %s) &'}, -- xfce
{'xdg-open', '(xdg-open %s) &'}, -- freedesktop.org
{'evince', '(evince %s) &'},
{'okular', '(okular %s) &'},
[...]
Selecting the pdf-viewer based on the existence of eg. gnome-open in the path is incorrect since being in a KDE session still gnome-open might be found in the path. It would be better to base the selection instead on some environment variables. KDE provides eg.
declare -x KDE_FULL_SESSION="true"
which can be used to detect if we are in a running KDE session. Gnome might provide similar variables.
Johannes
-- Package-specific info:
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(latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of
other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!
If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)
or
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)
##################################
minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jo jo 1711 Sep 17 16:24 /home/jo/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1099 Dec 16 09:24 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 80 Dec 16 09:24 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Dec 15 11:15 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Dec 15 11:15 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Dec 15 11:15 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Dec 15 11:15 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4634 Dec 15 11:17 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10219 Dec 15 11:17 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3709 Dec 15 11:17 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Dec 12 23:51 mktex.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
3875bf0f4a53a29b7f247399dc9833e2 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
6e82a3d4c00ae7e4f86aa8dcf9438cf3 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
c60a084820a0b73e3bfbf2e90bda437c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf
ea33127256c6a9f37145ae5b16fdb80c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
afccf1d3f87057411166a77c58e00bd1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
9da7c1c7b1eaf06f941af91f48a23068 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
37329819f1109e8a457e64b8b58fecdb /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
a8952d594677235951d447665ec46e9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf
bab3b7e578107f999fa1b0768994f6f8 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.5.4 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii luatex 0.46.0-7 next generation TeX engine
ii mime-support 3.48-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii tex-common 2.03 common infrastructure for building
ii texlive-binaries 2009-3 Binaries for TeX Live
ii texlive-common 2009-4 TeX Live: Base component
ii texlive-doc-base 2009-2 TeX Live: TeX Live documentation
Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
ii lmodern 2.004.1-3 scalable PostScript and OpenType f
Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii ghostscript [postscript-v 8.70~dfsg-2+b1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii gv [postscript-viewer] 1:3.6.7-1 PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii okular [postscript-viewer 4:4.3.4-1 document viewer for KDE 4
ii perl-tk 1:804.028-6 Perl module providing the Tk graph
pn xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.15.5.4 Debian package management system
ii ucf 3.0025 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
pn tetex-base <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-extra <none> (no description available)
ii tex-common 2.03 common infrastructure for building
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
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