If you need a temporary fix to this issue to get xdg-open to work (lot of tools depend on it), I recommend exporting the environment variable KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5 (or 4 or 6 or whatever is your KDE version). Fixes the problem (this environment variable is entirely missing in my installation)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xdg-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545044 Title: Xdg-open should use kde-open instead of kfmclient Status in xdg-utils package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: xdg-utils In /usr/bin/xdg-open, open_kde attempts to use the kfmclient binary to open the provided URI. Kfmclient is according to Ubuntu package database (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=kfmclient&mode=exactfilename&suite=lucid&arch=any), only available in the konqueror package, and in the kdebase-dbg (only in PATH from the Konqueror package). Neither of these two packages is a natural requirement for basic xdg- open functionality under a KDE-environment. Currently, unless the user has Konqueror installed, xdg-open falls back to open_generic sidestepping any KDE-configs. However, KDE does have a similar utility, kde-open, which does the same thing as xdg-open, and should be used instead of kfmclient. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-utils/+bug/545044/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
