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 through nautilus), >> so somehow it seems that orgmode has decided to make xpdf the default >> instead. > > Customize the variable `org-file-apps'. Look at documentation of the > variable, for an example and options available. > thx Puneeth! that's what i was looking for! strange thing is that it was already set to default so i thought evince would come up. then i changed it to system and xpdf still opened it.
anyway, i altered it to evince -p %1 %s and all is well. -- in friendship, prad