On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:08:15PM -0700, Joseph wrote > I'm using mutt and trying to view pdf files using evince but it is > not working. > > I have added to /etc/mailcap application/pdf; evince %s; > description="Postscript files"; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" -a -n "`which evince > 2>/dev/null`" > > but it makes no difference. What am I doing wrong :-/
Questions; 1) Why are you modifying /etc/mailcap ? Are you aware that ~/.mailcap overrides /etc/mailcap, and is the recommended way to go? If you have an entry for application/pdf in ~/.mailcap then changing /etc/mailcap won't help. 2) I use mupdf; should be similar. My ~/.mailcap has the line... application/pdf; /usr/bin/mupdf '%s' ; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ...so try... application/pdf; /usr/bin/evince '%s' ; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" ...in your ~/.mailcap 3) Are you sure that all pdf's are coming in as application/pdf ? A few years ago, my ISP "went Microsoft", and changed their pdf billing statements from application/pdf to "application/octet-stream". This requires the following entry in ~/.mailcap (or /etc/mailcap if you insist) application/octet-stream; mimeopen %s The first time it encounters an "application/octet-stream" file with a pdf extension, you'll get a dialogue, asking which program to use. It can be set to use that program without asking again. mimeopen maintains a list of the different programs to use with different file-extensions. If you don't have mimeopen installed, you can... emerge dev-perl/File-MimeInfo ...to install it. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
