From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:46:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu97i3rlsn6.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902150940.43007.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (Alan McKinnon's message of "Sun\, 15 Feb 2009 09\:40\:42 +0200")
At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:50:38 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap.
>>
>> For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains
>> unable to open document
>> unhandled mime type
>
> As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help you. I
> recently had all my kde associations and (very surprisingly) a number of
> others from other DEs go scrambled. Rebuilding kdelibs fixed all of it.
>
> I never did figure out how this could occur. Possibly it's something to do
> with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one can have
> system-wide side0effects.
Yes, I should have mentioned that I am a gnome user.
Thank you for responding.
allan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-15 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-13 23:50 [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?) Allan Gottlieb
2009-02-15 7:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-02-15 13:46 ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
2009-02-16 0:00 ` Marcin Zwd
2009-02-16 0:30 ` Allan Gottlieb
2009-02-16 0:53 ` Dale
2009-02-16 7:15 ` Mick
2009-02-16 8:09 ` Marcin Zwd
2009-02-16 0:16 ` [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)--Solved ?? Allan Gottlieb
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