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I want to ask, if somebody else have an solution or clue for solve for my issue.

I am using for Python development an PyCharm editor. Whenever I run my code, which contains os.system("xdg-open file.pdf") from PyCharm, everything works as expected. But whenever I packed my code using PyInstaller, this command fails without any error message or clue, what happens, what to do or where to start to search to solve this issue (I know, that os.system() command didnt catch any message from launched command, but there isnt any clue nowhere, at all).

I have tried for sure everything, what was possible to do. I have tried other launchers, which I found, like exo-open, mimeopen; I have tried to run from Python code an external bash script, containing commands mentioned above in various combinations, I have tried to create an external Python binary (using PyInstaller), which only executes os.system("xdg-open" + sys.argv[1]) command (because I call at other place of my program external binaries and it works fine), nowhere no clue, why that does not work.

When I try to use pure command xdg-open file.pdf from bash, everything works well. *)

Because I do my program for Linux and Windows as well, on Windows this malfunction is not present. There I use to view PDF file command os.system("start './file.pdf'") and it happens.

I am not sure, what is an origin of this issue, it could be PyInstaller issue, as well, as an system issue.

Have somebody similar experience and possibly some clue or solution? Your responses will be very welcome & thanks a lot!

Configuration:

• Linux Mint 18.2 64bit (kernel 4.8.0-53-generic)


• Xfce4 graphical environment


• Python 2.7


• PyCharm 2018 (closely latest release)


• Bash 4.3


• PyInstaller 3.4 (installed using pip)

Computer is Lenovo ThinkPad T410.

*) Maybe it could helps, or confuses more, but anyway: During testing process I have tried also run pure terminal from my program, to pass xdg-open command manually. But when I did it, there was no error message, but nothing happens. I have also tried to run PDF viewer straightforwardly, from common terminal everything works well, but from terminal opened by my program it runs PDF viewer, but with amount of GTK-related errors about missing icons (and file.pdf didn't open as well), so generally it fails (there was no icon present and no file opened (by the way with error message like "Open of mimetype application/octet-stream fails")). This behavior leads to some user/path/environment issue, but still, I have completely no clue, what happens and how to fix it.

P.S. I tried, of course, uncle Google for first, but without any success. Yes, it is possible, that I didn't found proper question to him, in that case please suggest me some ;)