On 14.01.2015 07:55, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 13:23 +0100, A.J. Bonnema wrote: >> I have always used MC as my commandline filemanager and really like >> it. However, since Fedora 21, when opening a PDF file it always shows >> an error that it cannot open "/usr/bin/dolphin" which is >> understandable, because by default gnome uses a different file manager >> (Nautilus I think). > > I haven't used MC for ages, but can you try simply changing the > preferences for what MC uses to open PDF files? MC may have defaulted > for using a KDE client, instead of something else. > > Some things palm off opening files to some other file handler, such as > gnome-open, or xdg-open (the latter is less biased towards a particular > desktop), which check the file to see what it is, then open it with an > appropriate default program. If MC does that, it may be that you need > to configure /that/ handler instead of MC. > > Or, maybe the solution is to reconfigure MC to use that handler to deal > with PDF files. > > Usually, with something more graphical than MC, you can right click on a > particular file, then choose what it's opened with, and also have some > option for changing the default application for what will open the same > type of file. I don't know if MC works that way now, nor whether simply > right clicking on some PDF file through your desktop, instead of MC, > will let you set default preferences that will apply to MC, as well. > > Somewhere in there, one of those suggestions ought to do the trick, but > write back to the list if you're still stuck. > > $ xdg-mime query default application/pdf evince.desktop Use xdg-open by default in mc.ext.in if present to open files, fallback on current scheme otherwise https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2118 Opened 5 years ago Last modified 2 years ago -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
