John Berberian, Jr.

This issue is still present in electron v21.0.1.

This issue is still present in Electron v25.3.0 and v26.0.0-beta5 on Ubuntu 23.04.

> This might be #28436? Based on the error message, I would assume that it isn't. It looks like electron is invoking `xdg-open` incorrectly.

Still present in 27.0.2 and 28.0.0-alpha.4 on Ubuntu 23.04. Same behavior - `openExternal('/home')` fails with an error message, `openExternal('file:///home')` works fine. Is this expected behavior? Are we not supposed to...

After inserting some logging into `xdg-open`, it looks like electron isn't passing it any arguments in the first case? In the second case it is passed `file:///home`.