"Open containing folder" doesn't work

[Roman Bereziuk]

Hi. Found that now when clicking on "Open containing folder" from the context menu on any book - nothing happens. And if the book has few formats and I try "Choose the format to view", pick pdf - also nothing. Run calibre from the terminal to find an error - clear. Maybe someone met the same behavior?

Calibre - 6.17

OS - Manjaro Gnome 23.0.0

[Roman Bereziuk (roman135)]

The basic action to open containing folder works.
For example, from the editor VSCode, I can open containing folder of files.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

These actions happen by passing the file:// URLs to Qt which in turn passes
them to xdg-open on Linux. xdg-open on your system is presumably broken.

[Roman Bereziuk (roman135)]

Kovid Goyal thanks for helping :)

It could be something else? I tried to run in terminal xdg-open with folder path or pdf file and its working

[Roman Bereziuk (roman135)]

Also when starting with debug mode and pressing "Open containing folder" no info in the terminal. Any error

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

No, it's nothing else. The environment xdg-open sees in a terminal and
when run from your graphical shell environment are completely different.
And Qt will pass URLs not paths to xdg-open. Many xdg-open
implementations are brain dead and fail on URLs.

[Roman Bereziuk (roman135)]

Got it. Could I do something with it? Without changing OS ))))

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fix xdg-open on your OS. Personally I ditched the upstream xdg-open and
wrote my own replacement years ago.

[Roman Bereziuk (roman135)]

I don't have enough skill for this )
I'll try to Google the solution, maybe it will work

Huge thanks for helping ☺️