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From: App Deb <appdebgr@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:45:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinP5jfjSDNAAIHC502SS8TwOn0s8jpOVrGScRx7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1278319981.13663.0@numa-i>

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Right click on a pdf file, select properties -> open with -> and select
evince instead of acroread.

That it the way to easily change default applications for gnome.

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Helmut Jarausch <
jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've discovered balsa , a great mail client, btw.
> How can I configure the application which is called for a pdf
> attachment.
>
> I cannot see any configuration item for balsa itself, so I suppose
> it must be a Gnome setting.
>
> Currently it's set to acroread, but I'd like to set it evince.
> I've checked ~/.mime.types and several files in /usr/share/mime*
>
> The only file I've found is
> /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.keys
>
> Is that the right place? How should I edit it (with a standard text
> editor?)
>
> Many thanks for your help,
> Helmut.
>
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-07 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-05  8:53 [gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer Helmut Jarausch
2010-07-07 10:45 ` App Deb [this message]
2010-07-07 13:25   ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-07-07 15:53     ` App Deb

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