James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> wrote: > A quick web search didn't turn up anything handy, so I thought I'd ask here. > > Is it possible to configure the new exporter to open a PDF (generated > by LaTeX) using evince instead of okular? > > That is, if I open a file browser (this is Ubuntu 12.04) and > double-click on a PDF, evince opens it. If I write a beamer > presentation in org and do C-c C-e l O, okular opens it. > > I did a couple of customize-apropos searches but didn't see anything obvious. > > (I'm aware that some swear by okular, but I think evince handles > paging slightly better when zooming to "best fit" for presentations. > So I'd rather use that.) >
There are too many cooks in this particular kitchen, but checking a couple of places should be enough in most cases: org-file-apps is the most immediate place but unless you've customized it, it should say ... ("\\.pdf\\'" . default) ... which takes us to the next cook: mailcap. ~/.mailcap overrides the system /etc/mailcap and there may be more (`man 5 mailcap' should reveal the rest), so check them in order. I prefer xpdf so my mailcap says: ,---- | $ grep pdf ~/.mailcap | application/pdf; xpdf -q %s `---- I like putting things in ~/.mailcap, but you can season to taste. HTH, Nick