diff --git a/tests/orgmode/orgmode.sh b/tests/orgmode/orgmode.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..c0e2ee9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/orgmode/orgmode.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+topdir=`dirname $0`/..
+. $topdir/shared.sh
+
+initvariables $0
+
+(
+recollq -S url 'title:"law and legal code versioned on github"' 
+)  2> $mystderr | egrep -v '^Recoll query: ' > $mystdout
+
+diff -w ${myname}.txt $mystdout > $mydiffs 2>&1
+
+checkresult
diff --git a/tests/orgmode/orgmode.txt b/tests/orgmode/orgmode.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..805cbc48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/orgmode/orgmode.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+1 results
+text/plain	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/orgmode/orgmode-example.org]	[law and legal code versioned on github]	370	bytes	
diff --git a/tests/shared.sh b/tests/shared.sh
index 2f490212..c2e88acf 100644
--- a/tests/shared.sh
+++ b/tests/shared.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # @(#$Id: shared.sh,v 1.4 2009-01-06 18:47:33 dockes Exp $  (C) 2006 J.F.Dockes
 # shared code and variables for all tests
 
+# TMPDIR has to be something which belongs to the user because of pdftk
+# issues (see runtests.sh)
+export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp
+
 RECOLL_TESTDATA=${RECOLL_TESTDATA:-/home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll}
 
 # All source'rs should set topdir as a relative path from their location to