Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-14 Thread François Pinard
Nick Dokos 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 few governmental pos

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Nick Dokos 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 with its switch > bla

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-13 Thread Nick Dokos
Eric Abrahamsen 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 Eric Abrahamsen
On Tue, Mar 13 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: > [OT warning: no org content here, just gnome/mailcap.] > > Eric Abrahamsen 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

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-13 Thread Nick Dokos
[OT warning: no org content here, just gnome/mailcap.] Eric Abrahamsen 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 surprise me if it

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Mon, Mar 12 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: > prad 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"

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread Nick Dokos
prad 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 Format; na

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread prad
Nick Dokos writes: > prad 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 decide

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread Nick Dokos
prad 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 > in

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 wrote: > Puneeth Chaganti writes: > > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, prad 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 not

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread prad
Puneeth Chaganti writes: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, prad 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 someh

Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

2012-03-11 Thread Puneeth Chaganti
Prad, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, prad 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

[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, pra