On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 01:22:48AM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> El 31.07.2017 a las 01:00, Paul A. Rubin escribió:
> 
> > IIRC, the script cycles through the options and stops at the first
> > match. (This is true on all operating systems, not just Linux.) If, for
> > example, Evince precedes Xreader and the user has both installed, the
> > default will become Evince, even though Xreader is the, um, default
> > default (the one set by the system when Mint is installed).
> 
> Thanks for the explanation. So as long as the the LyX configure.py script
> cannot determine what the current default PDF viewer is on a system cases
> like yours cannot be avoided.
> 
> But maybe there is a way to determine this? Maybe our pyhtonists have an
> idea?

Search for discussions on xdg-open. There have been some discussions in
the past about it.

Scott

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