On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:15:38AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 09:02, John wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 09:36:20PM -0700, 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. > > > > > > I tried editing the list and unchecking all applications except for > > > acroread. No joy. I tried adding a "My Acroread" application to the > > > list, with no luck. > > > > > A while back, I had the same problem with gmc, I tried to change the > > association from xanim to mtv without success. > > > > In researching the problem on the net, the problem was a common one & > > the general consensious was that it was a bug, & not going to be fixed > > anytime soon. > > > > I started using filerunner which allowed me to change associations. > > > > I'm running sid with kde now, so maybe recent upgrades have fixed the > > problem, but haven't revisited gnome to find out. > > I'm running sid as well, so it looks like this bug has not been fixed. I > ended up doing ln -s acroread /usr/bin/xpdf > Now why didn't I think of that? Good work John -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Using [Debian] Linux _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
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