# Automatically switch to the external program when citations are pushed

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/automatically-switch-to-the-external-program-when-citations-are-pushed/2663>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [April 16, 2021, 6:42am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/automatically-switch-to-the-external-program-when-citations-are-pushed/2663 "2021-04-16T06:42:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![dbitouze](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/dbitouze/32/936_2.png) [@dbitouze](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/dbitouze)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 6:42am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/automatically-switch-to-the-external-program-when-citations-are-pushed/2663/1 "2021-04-16T06:42:31Z")

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Hi,

AFAIR, JabRef used to automatically switch to the external program when citations were pushed. But it seems to not be the case any more, at least with JabRef 5.2.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![dbitouze](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/dbitouze/32/936_2.png) [@dbitouze](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/dbitouze)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/automatically-switch-to-the-external-program-when-citations-are-pushed/2663/2 "2021-04-18T20:24:12Z")

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I have to mention that it is on Linux that I experienced this new trouble (on this OS, it used to work nicely), since I could later see that my students who are using Windows 10 don’t experienced it.