On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 07:04 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > I made the mistake of installing adobe's latest acroread on F8. Now, > there is no mime type for pdf: > > xdg-mime query filetype *.pdf > application/octet-stream > > xdg-mime query default application/x-pdf > xdg-mime query default application/pdf > > System never heard of this mime type anymore. I've never installed Adobe's PDF reader, and my set-up's pretty similar: [tim@suspishus ~]$ xdg-mime query filetype pdf xdg-mime: file 'pdf' does not exist [tim@suspishus ~]$ xdg-mime query default application/x-pdf [tim@suspishus ~]$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf evince.desktop > How do I fix this? [tim@suspishus ~]$ man xdg-mime NAME xdg-mime - command line tool for querying information about file type handling and adding descriptions for new file types Read it, and find out what you do to add one. Likewise, with looking at the output of: xdg-mime --help Setting a new MIME type default: [tim@suspishus ~]$ xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/x-pdf Querying, to see that it worked: [tim@suspishus ~]$ xdg-mime query default application/x-pdf evince.desktop "evince.desktop" being the file that makes up the Applications menu entry that goes with the evince program. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list