Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-14 Thread François Pinard
Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com writes: Part of my frustration with these things (gnome things in particular) is the sparse-to-non-existent documentation, But Nick, the GUI is everything now. Who needs documentation! ? :-( Anecdote. A big, complex translation system was demonstrated to a

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-13 Thread Nick Dokos
[OT warning: no org content here, just gnome/mailcap.] Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: Next question: since xpdf is available and /etc/mailcap prefers it, why is nautilus using evince? Doesn't it use mailcap? I guess not, although I don't know for sure[fn:1], but it wouldn't

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-13 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Tue, Mar 13 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: [OT warning: no org content here, just gnome/mailcap.] Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: Next question: since xpdf is available and /etc/mailcap prefers it, why is nautilus using evince? Doesn't it use mailcap? I guess not, although I

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-13 Thread Nick Dokos
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: ... Sorry, that's not helpful at all! Au contraire! It adds some validity to my prejudices :-) Thanks, Nick

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com writes: Or maybe I've given up too easily: is there good documentation somewhere on the web e.g. of gconftool? As they said in the old times: the documentation is in the files with the suffix .c (ducks :-). To get back to your post: my problem with xdg-open

[O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread prad
how do i set evince as the default. right now xpdf is, but if i remove it, following a link to a pdf file produces nothing. i'm using gnome and evince is the default there (eg through nautilus), so somehow it seems that orgmode has decided to make xpdf the default instead. -- in friendship,

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread Puneeth Chaganti
Prad, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: how do i set evince as the default. right now xpdf is, but if i remove it, following a link to a pdf file produces nothing. i'm using gnome and evince is the default there (eg through nautilus), so somehow it seems

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread prad
Puneeth Chaganti puncha...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: how do i set evince as the default. right now xpdf is, but if i remove it, following a link to a pdf file produces nothing. i'm using gnome and evince is the default there (eg

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread brian powell
I much prefer OKULAR over EVINCE On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:15 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: Puneeth Chaganti puncha...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: how do i set evince as the default. right now xpdf is, but if i remove

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread Nick Dokos
prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: how do i set evince as the default. right now xpdf is, but if i remove it, following a link to a pdf file produces nothing. i'm using gnome and evince is the default there (eg through nautilus), so somehow it seems that orgmode has decided to make xpdf

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread prad
Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com writes: prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: how do i set evince as the default. right now xpdf is, but if i remove it, following a link to a pdf file produces nothing. i'm using gnome and evince is the default there (eg through nautilus), so somehow it

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread Nick Dokos
prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: here's what i found in /etc/mailcap application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test $DISPLAY != ; description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf application/x-pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test $DISPLAY != ; description=Portable Document

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Mon, Mar 12 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: here's what i found in /etc/mailcap application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test $DISPLAY != ; description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf application/x-pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test