On 3/8/25 8:52 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 07:41:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad.
I assumed that Edit Preferences was the place to go.
But under Browser->Helper Applications it says "always ask" indicating
system isn't getting that far.
You didn't tell us, but I read between the lines that you are
editing your browser's preferences.
Not *intentionally* [see below] ;/
Now the browser wants you
(very badly) to believe that it IS the world -- and seems to
be succeeding, alas. But it isn't
You want to tweak your desktop environment's preferences. Now
I'm the wrong people to ask about DEs, because I try to avoid
them, but I've been told that you can...
You can ;}
Caja, MATE's file manager, has an Edit->Preferences function.
Your response nudged me to stop and think.
- right click on your PDF [1]
- in the context menu chose "open with"
- select your favourite application, BUT
- somewhere on that way you'll get a choice to
"always open this kind of file with...": select that.
That is the description of what happens if an association has not been
made previously.
There is a similar procedure to change the setting. I couldn't find it.
I've never found MATE's Help very "helpful".
I used to know what to do ;<
That's why I hate DEs. They subtly sabotage one's ability to
learn.
HTH
[1] Of course you can't "click" on a "PDF". You click on that
funny pic pretending to represent that PDF. Or something.
I hope you know what I mean.
Yepp. I predate CPM by decades. CPU's with vacuum tubes anyone?
