This is fixed with the latest commit in the Hyperbole source version.

Bob


On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 8:46 AM Robert Weiner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good ideas.  A-- Bob
>
> > On Sep 29, 2020, at 2:36 AM, Jean Louis <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The variable hpath:external-display-alist-x should be made
> > customizable, same for other operating systems.
> >
> > (("\\.e?ps$" . "ghostview") ("\\.dvi$" . "xdvi")
> ("\\.\\(doc[mx]?\\|od[st]\\|ppsx?\\|ppt[mx]?\\|xls[mx]?\\)$" .
> "openoffice") ("\\.pdf$" "xpdf" "acroread") ("\\.ps\\.g?[zZ]$" . "zcat %s |
> ghostview -") ("\\.\\(gif\\|tiff?\\|xpm\\|xbm\\|xwd\\|pm\\|pbm\\|jpe?g\\)"
> . "xv") ("\\.ra?s$" . "snapshot -l"))
> >
> > xv is shareware and thus not free software, I don't think it should be
> > hard coded in GNU Hyperbole, if I am not mistaken GNU Hyperbole is
> > part of GNU system, and then it should not point to non-free
> > software. The image viewer I am using is sxiv, very handy and free
> > software. There are many others.
> >
> > There are some new readers and software, often libreoffice is used
> > rather than openoffice, evince and mupdf and other PDF readers are
> > today more often used than xpdf or acroread which I do not even have
> > in my free operating system any more.
> >
> > Customization would be good for this variable.
> >
> > I use:  Editor:      GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 15, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X
> toolkit, cairo version 1.14.8, Xaw3d scroll bars)
> >
> >        Hyperbole:   7.1.2
> >        Sys Type:    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> >        OS Type:     gnu/linux
> >        Window Sys:  x
> >        News Reader: Gnus v5.13
> >
>

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