Re: Getting gnome file manager to use acroread instead of xpdf
On 7 Oct 2001, Dave Carrigan wrote:
> I am having a bear of a time getting the file manager to launch acroread
> instead of xpdf when I double click on a .pdf file. It insists on
> running xpdf. I went to the Control Center->File Types and selected the
> application/pdf mime type. The default action is set to "Open with
> Application" and I made sure that I had Adobe Acrobat Reader selected
> from the popug menu. However, that didn't work; the file manager still
> launched xpdf.
[...]
> Is there somebody out there that can give me a clue as to what's going
> on?
I have no clue, but launching acroread works fine on my machine running
unstable. Galeon and Nautilus both launch acroread.
-jwb
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