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I would like Chromium to open PDFs with "evince", but it always uses GIMP. Any ideas on how I can fix this? Thank you!
Last edited by ephan (2012-03-07 20:44:01)
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As far as I remember, chrome/chromium uses xdg-open to find the right programs to open files.
As such, you can read up on changing those preferences for xdg-open at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-open
Also, if you're not sure this is the issue, simply run
xdg-open <pdf file>
(where you replace <pdf file> with an actual PDF). If it opens in anything besides GIMP, someone else will need to chime in.
Hope that helps
Last edited by lswest (2012-03-07 16:10:47)
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Thank you! I used xdg-mime and it worked perfectly!
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You should post the actual command line argument to fix it, that would be much more usefull than: "It worked!".
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The commands are mentioned in the aforementioned wiki page. There is even an example for PDFs. Just read it.
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I use xfce4-mime-settings to solve the issue.
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You should post the actual command line argument to fix it, that would be much more usefull than: "It worked!".
+1. I followed the wiki and it didn't work:
$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
gimp.desktop
$ xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf
$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
gimp.desktop
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Please open a new topic about your problem, and refrain from bumping old topics if you have nothing to contribute.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22
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