On 11 Mar 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 11 Mar 2009, Bob Cox wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:35:54 +0000, Anthony Campbell > > ([email protected]) wrote: > > > > > On my laptop I have set Preferences to use xpdf to read pdf files, but > > > for some reason it keeps calling gimp instead. Is there any way to make > > > it do what I want? > >
I found a lot of other people with a similar problem in the Suse world but eventually I found my own solution. Firefox wants a full path to the app you want to use. So I went into Prefecences, chose 'Use other', and then navigated to /usr/bin/xpdf and clicked on that. Firefox now no longer uses gimp. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [email protected] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
