Repository navigation
xdg-open errors when publishing content #296
Description
Using the rsconnect-python package to publish content in rstudio.cloud, these xdg-open errors are displayed in the terminal, even though the content is published correctly.
/cloud/project$ [443:443:1021/172110.397604:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(240)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[443:443:1021/172110.398718:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: firefox: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: iceweasel: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: seamonkey: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: mozilla: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: epiphany: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: konqueror: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: chromium: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: chromium-browser: not found
[497:497:1021/172110.575512:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(240)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[497:497:1021/172110.575565:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: www-browser: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: links2: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: elinks: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: links: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: lynx: not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: 869: w3m: not found
xdg-open: no method available for opening '<URL>'
Steps to Reproduce:
- Publish python content using the
rsconnect-pythonpackage in rstudio.cloud
Expected Results:
- Content is published without the
xdg-openerrors.
Activity
aronatkins commentedon Oct 21, 2022
From
rsconnectin R, we have alaunch.browserargument torsconnect::deployAppthat is disabled when interactive and can be used to configure / prohibit launching a browser:https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect/blob/b873c27688d914118c72fe89be7d26257bd2894e/R/deployApp.R#L123-L124
That gets threaded into
openURL:https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect/blob/b873c27688d914118c72fe89be7d26257bd2894e/R/deployApp.R#L852-L858
We probably need something similar.
https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-python/blob/f595f69d0f943949bcc77f9f25710791ddadd454/rsconnect/api.py#L735-L736
CC @mslynch
mslynch commentedon Oct 21, 2022
@aronatkins I don't think that's what we need (though it would probably be useful in some cases).
rsconnectis able to open URLs throughutils::browseURLthrough what seems to be a monkey-patched implementation. Ideally we'd have the same thing for Python, but we could potentially settle for skipping thewebbrowser.open_newcall in cloud if that's not feasible.aronatkins commentedon Oct 24, 2022
@mslynch Sorry that I wasn't clear -- I was giving references to prior work on the R side - where we allow R options and function arguments to control if and how a URL is opened after the deploy completes.
I'm not sure how rstudio.cloud adjusts the browser-open call for R deploys; you might be able to allow something similar here.
nealrichardson commentedon Dec 6, 2025
rstudio.cloud/posit.cloud publishing support was removed in #735