Third-party application does not launch external Gnome applications.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • A third-party application will not launch nautilus, gedit, or another external Gnome application for editing / viewing a file.

  • xdg-open does not appear to work for any Gnome applications.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • GNOME

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