On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 08:38 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 23/12/11 15:05, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I recently pulled in the updates that brought Gnome 3. Now, anytime I > > try to open a PDF in iceweasel, they are opened with inkscape instead of > > evince. There's a bug filed on this problem (#613752), but it includes > > no workaround. > > > > gnome-control-center lets me specify preferred applications for only a > > scant few things, but not PDFs. Setting iceweasel's application/pdf to > > /usr/bin/evince doesn't help. I would be happy to remove inkscape, but > > gnome and gnome-desktop-environment depend on it. > > > > What is the right way around this? > > Right click on the file in Nautilus and choose properties. > > Select the "Open With" tab > > Either pick an application from the list and click the "Set as Default" > button, or if its not there you will have to "Show Other Applications" > first and select one from there. Alan, So far, it looks like this works perfectly. I'll post your info on the bug so others that hit this issue can find the solution in the future. Thanks a bunch! Ross
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