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

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> 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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Wohoo that's nice ;)
Now no worries if viewer is changed (Although I don't plan to remove
KDE and use something else :D).

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