[Theodore Kilgore, 2013-01-18] > On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: > > > [Theodore Kilgore, 2013-01-18] > > > "xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application" > > > explicitly mentioning "a file or a url" and then it says > > > "If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred > > > application for files of that type." These words would indicate that it > > > is > > > going to open a file by doing something to the file, not by doing the > > > extraneous act of starting a web browser. > > > > do you have something like: > > > > application/pdf; xpdf '%s'; prioryty=1; test=test -n > > "$DISPLAY" > > > > in ~/.mailcap or /etc/mailcap? > > No I did not. > > > If not, can you add it to ~/.mailcap and check > > xdg-open again? > > > > You can also add to ~/.mime.types: > > I have no such file
create it then > > application/pdf pdf > > (didn't try adding any .mime.types file. Are you sure it isn't "xpdf" at > the end?) yes, I'm sure (it will let xdg-open know that *.pdf files have application/pdf mime type and later it will choose the right app from ~/.mailcap) > > if /etc/mime.types doesn't have it. > > No such file in /etc, either. so that's why xdg-open tries to open this file in a browser > The man page says it has something to do > with cups. nothing to do with CUPS, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailcap > No help from adding the line to .mailcap. echo 'application/pdf pdf' >> ~/.mime.types -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
