[arch-general] Getting firefox to use the PDF I want?

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:12, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> After installing Gimp it became the default application for PDFs,
> something I
> didn't really want.  A quick change in Nautilus took care of Gnome.  Still
> firefox insists on only offering a single choice for handling PDFs: gimp!
>
> Gnome behaves correctly, and XDG seems to be set up properly:
>
>  % xdg-mime query default application/pdf
>  /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop
>
> How do I get firefox to use the correct application?

The easiest solution for now seems to be setting '/usr/bin/xdg-open'
as the application to use for opening PDFs :-)

/M

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