Right click > "show in folder" results in "There was an error executing xdg-open

[Elijah Lynn]

When right clicking an image from the main window and clicking "show in folder I get the error "There was an error executing xdg-open".

Screenshot attached.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Hiya - looks like you've attached the wrong screenshot.

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Elijah Lynn <email address hidden> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> When right clicking an image from the main window and clicking "show in
> folder I get the error "There was an error executing xdg-open".
>
> Screenshot attached.
>
> ** Affects: shutter
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: xdg-open
>
> ** Attachment added: "xdg-error"
>
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[Elijah Lynn (elijah-lynn)]

Hi Vadim,

Thanks for letting me know about that. I actually just found this issue via a search in an attempt to fix it again, lol.

Here is a gif of the error...

[Elijah Lynn (elijah-lynn)]

Just updated to 0.93.1 (Rev.1278) and this is still present.

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

What is hidden in "Show more details"?

[Brian McGinn (a6zj6)]

I also have this issue. When I expand the 'Show more details' window it shows 'Exit Code: 1'.

Oddly, if I kill it and start it again it works. Perhaps it's only the instance started during boot?

See attached.

[Brian McGinn (a6zj6)]

Spoke too soon. It resolved itself for about 10 minutes then happened again regardless if I launch it from terminal or just from the launcher. Here are the details when I run it from terminal:

Launched using: /usr/bin/shutter --min_at_startup (also tried less the min_at_startup parameter)

WARNING: Image::ExifTool is missing --> writing Exif information will be disabled!

xdg-open: unexpected argument 'Spike'
Try 'xdg-open --help' for more information.

Anyone have any creative ideas?? I've had this bug forever now. I am running Shutter 0.93.1 rev.1278

[Elijah Lynn (elijah-lynn)]

Okay, I think I figured out what is going on with this after actually setting Shutter up on a RHEL7 box. I tested first by launching from CLI as root `sudo shutter` and right click to open screenshots worked fine there, so I suspected permissions. Then I eventually arrived at running shutter without root on the CLI and looked at the stdout when right clicking to "show in folder". I noticed I had an xdg-open error of "unexpected argument" with part of the folder path. This led me to realize that the string wasn't quoted right and due to the fact that one of the folders in the path had a space in it, it was looking for only the first part of that path and then passing the post-space part of the string as a 2nd argument.

tl;dr
It is most likely a space in your path, check your path for spaces. I am still on 0.93.1, a new version 0.94.x has since come out with bug fixes and I don't know if it includes this.

[Elijah Lynn (elijah-lynn)]

Browsing through the commits/revisions for the devel branch it appears it may be fixed as they the diff shows some changes to the xdg-open invocation code.

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~shutter/shutter/devel/revision/1282

[Elijah Lynn (elijah-lynn)]

And it appears that the fix might just be a side effect of fixing this security vulnerability. https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/1652600

[Elijah Lynn (elijah-lynn)]

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2017/09/shutter-0-94-released-install-ubuntu-16-04/

"Insecure use of system() allows arbitrary code execution via “Show in Folder”"

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

The news you linked includes instructions on installing 0.94 from PPA, culd you please check if it indeed solves the problem?

[Jose Luis Tirado (txelu70)]

I'm having this problem too, but I get an error code of 4, instead of 1. I'm using Archlinux with Gnome Desktop 3.28.0 and Shutter 0.94 rev 1920.

[Jose Luis Tirado (txelu70)]

I found the reason that causes the error in my case. I'm using a Spanish installation and the folder containing the images is called "Imágenes", which is the default folder for Shutter's snapshots. When I changed this output folder to another one called "Imagenes" (with no tilde) it worked just fine. So it must be the way this folder name was passed to xdg-open that causes the error if it contains non ASCII characters.
I must also say that other options like Open with Image Viewer worked well with the original "Imágenes" folder. Only "show in folder" didn't work.

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

Thanks for your research, I think, I could fix the bug, will push the fix asap.

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

Please test the latest revision 1292!