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I find this command
sudo update-alternatives –config x-www-browser
I choose Chrome. It works for xpdf, but Evince still starts Firefox after click.
I feel Linux is not standard. I use Linux Mint 8 (Helena) LXDE.
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I find this command
sudo update-alternatives –config x-www-browser
I choose Chrome. It works for xpdf, but Evince still starts Firefox after click.
I feel Linux is not standard. I use Linux Mint 8 (Helena) LXDE.
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Solving your issue is like voodoo, even when there are "protocols" regarding how and which applications are supposed to open a specific kind of file. You'll see that they're very inconsistent between systems and different desktop environments.
So there's no really a "right" answer. I had a similar problem with firefox, so I'm giving you my solution:
~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
if it doesn't existAdd the following
[Default Applications]
application/pdf=evince.desktop;
...or just the last line if there's something before.
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I've heard that mimeapps.list
is the new filename for freedesktop.org: http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.1.html
It works like Voodoo, magical, but just simply works =) – Shi B. – 2015-07-30T03:54:14.143
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As far as I understand LXDE uses xdg to do calls to applications. This command should fix your issue:
To find out which application opens a pdf file :
xdg-mime query default application/pdf
To set the application to evince
xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf
This should work if your application is registered to the desktop (i.e. if there is a launcher)
5this should actually be xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf
– xubuntix – 2012-05-14T17:26:09.970
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You can edit your $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
file. If this file does not exist, create one.
For illustration's sake, if you want Chromium to be the default browser, add the following line:
x-scheme-handler/http=chromium.desktop
That's all.
Worked like a charm on Arch Linux. – Rudy Matela – 2013-07-10T02:35:50.470
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I had a reverse problem - I want firefox to open the links, but evince started chromium no matter what.
I used strace -o /tmp/output evince
to see what functions are called and found this in the log:
open("/home/koniu/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop;", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/share/applications/firefox.desktop;", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop;", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/koniu/.local/share/applications/chromium.desktop", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/share/applications/chromium.desktop", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 16
No idea why there's a semicolon included in the firefox.desktop but I created /home/koniu/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop
with the following content:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox
Exec=/usr/bin/firefox %U
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=firefox
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
And now evince
starts firefox
as desired.
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To change Gnome applications you need to use gconftool:
$ gconftool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command -t string 'chromium-browser %s'
To check the changes:
$ gconftool -g /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
Other Gnome applications:
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/chrome/command
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp/command
Reference:
http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1376&view=print
you keep telling the guy to setup gnome, but he is using LXDE... – g24l – 2011-12-16T00:00:30.243
1@g24l: Evince is a GNOME program, though. (However, it doesn't use GConf for URL handlers anymore.) – user1686 – 2011-12-16T00:17:46.857
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None of these solutions worked for me.
I had to edit ~/.config/mimeapps.list
and append these rules to the two headers:
[Default Applications]
application/pdf=org.gnome.Evince.desktop
[Added Associations]
application/pdf=evince.desktop;org.gnome.Evince.desktop;
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I had this problem, using evince under KDE. I had to log out from KDE, login to GNOME, and set the default browser of GNOME (Search
-> Details
-> Default Applications
-> Browser
). Then go back to KDE and it worked fine.
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Set the default browser in Gnome applications with gnome-default-applications-properties
.
you almost killed my system!
after apt-get gnome-control-center, the system is almost broken. – chenge – 2010-06-14T09:22:49.773
define "almost broken" – msw – 2010-06-14T11:10:26.970
3The issue may be you are telling him to install gnome stuff when his window manager is probably LXDE. – Jarvin – 2010-06-14T17:40:49.730
i report it: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=50017
it write file .xsession-errors with "fcitx signal 11", and eat the hd space.
4@Dan keep in mind that evince is "gnome stuff", and has gnome dependencies; that said, I don't know what the right answer here is. (Also, LXDE is a desktop environment, not a window manager, not that matters here.) – frabjous – 2010-08-31T02:31:36.360
For MATE users: http://askubuntu.com/a/533160/10425
– Martin Thoma – 2014-10-07T11:52:40.080this question is not well phrased , what do you mean that evince starts firefox ? Having seen this, now I am not so sure about my answer. – g24l – 2011-12-16T00:12:22.610
I think the question is about which browser starts if you click on a URL in a PDF document. – erik – 2013-10-24T09:51:32.140