SOLVED, was: removing wslview from Ubuntu-only computers?

[Marco Fioretti]

To make a long story short...

I got tired of waiting, and typed "sudo apt remove wslu", the package
that contains wslview.

Now Obsidian opens with LibreOffice and evince the .odt or .pdf files
as it should, without bad side effects on the rest of the system,
AFAICT.

If anybody has a clue as to what happened, and why, I'd still like to
know, of course. Frankly, I do not know when or how wslview entered my
system, as I fail to see any way I may use it...

Marco

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 06:30:37 AM +0000, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> while using Obsidian (note taking software) on Ubuntu 22.04 I noticed that it
> cannot open links to local files, so I asked for help on the Obsidian forum:
> 
> https://forum.obsidian.md/t/
> how-to-open-with-default-app-pdf-or-other-files-outside-the-vault/57087/4
> 
> I now ask here because, after further testing and googling, it seems the
> problem is that Obsidian uses wslview instead of stuff like xdg-open to open
> files. For details and full error message, see my last comment in the link
> above. So...
> 
> 1) why on Earth should an Ubuntu-only box use wslview, or even have it
> installed in the first place? Is this by chance related to/the same as this bug
> here:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemsettings/+bug/1978842
> 
> 2) anyway, since at this point I am not sure I could just uninstall wslview
> without making things worst (because this is a system-wide Ubuntu/Linux
> problem, Obsidian is just the way I discovered it)... what is the solution
> here? Thoughts? Similar experiences?
> 
> TIA,
> Marco



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