Re: Emacs will show the scratch window instead of the tex document window when I double click on a tex document to open it.

[tomas]

On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 10:03:30AM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 7:31 AM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 10:46 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 10:36:17PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> > > > Hi here,
> > > >
> > > > When I double-click on a TeX document to open it, Emacs will show the
> > > > scratch window instead of the TeX document window [...]

> > > What OS/desktop environment are you using?
> >
> > $ inxi -S
> > System:
> >   Host: X10DAi Kernel: 5.19.0-21-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME 43.0
> >     Distro: Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)

So it's GNOME, I see. Sorry to say that I lost track of GNOME years
ago, so I'm not that much of an expert...

> A very strange thing is that if I double-click on a very simple tex
> file, this issue does not occur, as shown in the attached screenshot:

This is strange indeed. I guess that there is a context menu
(perhaps right-clicking on the file) which offers you "open
with..." or similar. What happens then?

Cheers
-- 
t

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