Re: How do I change default pdf viewer for firefox 1.5 ?
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 16:04:31 +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
> On 4/17/06, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
> <sumo.wrestler.0rj82m+no.spam.abuse@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Maxim Vexler wrote:
> > > Hello everyone.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when
> > > opening pdf files from FireFox. The current (default) application is
> > > /usr/bin/gpdf, I wish it to be /usr/bin/evince.
> > > [...]
> >
> > Place these lines in your ~/.mailcap file:
> >
> > application/pdf; /usr/bin/evince %s
> > application/x-pdf; /usr/bin/evince %s
> >
> > Create the file if it doesn't already exist.
> >
> >
>
> Wonderful !
>
> I ended up editing my global /etc/mailcap.
> This file did showed up in my "brute force" search but I never
> bothered checking it because I never thought it might be levent.
>
> One has to wonder why the funny "mail<something>" name for a mime file?
Because the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions were originally
introduced to improve your MAIL CAPabilities.
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Regards,
Florian
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