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#1 2014-10-05 16:14:38
- lagagnon
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Force opening of different PDF reader from Chromium downloads page?
Using i3, zathura, chromium and ranger. I have set ranger to open zathura as my PDF reader and recently removed the chromium pdf reader plugin as I wish to use zathura instead. However, when I click a PDF from chromium's dowloads page it opens the PDF in The Gimp. I see nothing in my mimeapps.list file says to use the Gimp.
How can I force default opening PDF's with sathura in all cases?
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#2 2014-10-05 17:08:21
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Re: Force opening of different PDF reader from Chromium downloads page?
Chromium uses xdg-open as far as I know to open downloaded files.
See this thread which may resolve your problem in a similar way.
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#3 2014-10-05 20:02:50
- lagagnon
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Re: Force opening of different PDF reader from Chromium downloads page?
ninian: thanks, that worked!
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#4 2014-10-05 20:24:30
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Re: Force opening of different PDF reader from Chromium downloads page?
and recently removed the chromium pdf reader plugin
Just out of curiosity, as far as I remember, now this plugin ships together with the chromium package from the official repos. In this case, how are you removing it? Are you doing this directly on your filesystem, with rm? If yes, you will have to repeat this procedure on every upgrade of chromium.
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#5 2014-10-05 20:38:32
- lagagnon
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Re: Force opening of different PDF reader from Chromium downloads page?
Did not actually remove it, sorry, that was misleading. I just disabled it in chrome://plugins.
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