It seems Chromium uses xdg-open
to open PDF files.
How do I change it to another PDF reader?
I'm using Linux Mint 8 LXDE.
It seems Chromium uses xdg-open
to open PDF files.
How do I change it to another PDF reader?
I'm using Linux Mint 8 LXDE.
This command edits the configuration file to use xpdf
as the default PDF viewer:
xdg-mime default xpdf.desktop application/pdf
More details about xdg-open
can be found here:
Check these:
/usr/share/applications/defaults.list
~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
And the command xdg-mime
. Use man xdg-mime
to RTFM :))).
I had the exact problem the OP describes on Ubuntu 10.04. It seems I had entries for both xpdf AND evince in /etc/mailcap.
application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf
application/x-pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf
application/x-dia-diagram; dia '%s'; description="DIA diagram"; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.dia
audio/basic; /usr/bin/esdplay '%s'
audio/x-wav; /usr/bin/esdplay '%s'
audio/x-aiff; /usr/bin/esdplay '%s'
application/pdf; evince '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.pdf
application/x-pdf; evince '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.pdf
removing/commenting out the entries for xpdf resolved the issue for me