Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 3/8/25 8:07 AM, Miriami wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also
> > has this: 1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click
> > menu, chooss 'open this file with ...' 2. In the then-popped-up
> > dialog a
On 08/03/2025 21:30, Marco Moock wrote:
xdg-mime query default application/pdf
Just a word of caution. It does not necessary mean that applications or
xdg-open will use the reported handler.
E.g. in corner cases Gtk and KDE interprets mimeapps.list in a bit
different way.
exo-open (that i
On 09/03/2025 01:21, Richard Owlett wrote:
I do not believe using xdg-mime is a *legitimate" technique in this
instance. It wasn't used to *cause* the problem. It *shouldn't* be used
to supposedly "solve" the problem.
A wrong assumption.
On 08/03/2025 23:27, Richard Owlett wrote:
Before toda
On 09/03/2025 04:55, Mike Kupfer wrote:
I don't have any ideas for how you ended up with a different PDF viewer.
Behavior varies across various DE. It may be enough to just install
another application that may open PDF files. If media type association
is not explicitly configured then it is i
On 3/8/25 3:55 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
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 can suggest a couple things to try, either of which should get you
back to using Atril.
1. Open the MATE Control Center, click o
On 08.03.2025 17:30 Uhr Richard Owlett wrote:
> Before today I never heard of anything beginning with "xdg".
Now you have heard about it, so use it.
> I'm looking for the specific MATE tool. ;}
I think that is maybe handled by the file manager. Which one do you use?
--
kind regards
Marco
Sen
do *NOT* try solution described below
*UNLESS* unless you know how to recover.
On 3/8/25 7:41 AM, 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.
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 can suggest a couple things to try, either of which should get you
back to using Atril.
1. Open the MATE Control Center, click on "Preferred Applications" (in
the "
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 12:21:43PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I do not believe using xdg-mime is a *legitimate" technique in this
> instance. It wasn't used to *cause* the problem. It *shouldn't* be used to
> supposedly "solve" the problem.
You don't know that. As Marco already explained,
On 3/8/25 8:07 AM, Miriami wrote:
Hi Richard,
I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also has this:
1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click menu, chooss 'open this
file with ...'
2. In the then-popped-up dialog asking which program to be used to open this
P
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 Preferen
Hi Richard,
I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also has this:
1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click menu, chooss 'open this
file with ...'
2. In the then-popped-up dialog asking which program to be used to open this
PDF file, select the program desired,
On 3/8/25 8:30 AM, Marco Moock wrote:
On 08.03.2025 14:50 Uhr Richard Owlett wrote:
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 i
On 3/8/25 7:55 AM, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2025 at 8:41 AM
From: "Richard Owlett"
To: "debian-user"
Subject: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable
My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
It used to be that clickin
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 und
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
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