On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:28:31 -0500 Alexander Volovics <a.volovic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:55:18 -0500 > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It is a mystery. Firefox opens acroread to read pdf files on my machine > > without asking me anything. > > Remove acroread, then it uses evince every time (without asking you anything) ;-) ;-) ;-) > > Alexander I have had a similar problem (with gv/epdfview, however), and I used the above (non-)solution. (It is not a real solution because the OP may want to use acroread for some things, as I need to, with regard to gv -- I need to use it to read .ps files.) The problem appears to crop up if you install the non-preferred application (gv in my case) after the preferred one (epdfview in my case). I have temporarily solved it by manually setting the "open document upon click" application to "/usr/bin/epdfview" and checking the box for Remember this for pdf documents from now on, or something like that. You get one try only at this. Fixing the problem from the Preferences tab has no effect. (It specifically has always had "epdfview" for me.) So, here is my suggestion which worked for me: take off (uninstall) the acroread rpm, and the reinstall. Click on a pdf document and then it will ask you the first time. Specifically ask for /usr/bin/evince (I think that is where evince sits) and make sure you check that box. Complete the operation, quit FF and then repeat the process. See if it works. It did for me. HTH. Ranjan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
