Comments on: Evince Document Viewer Menu Entry http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/09/23/evince-document-viewer-menu-entry Alan LaMielle Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:01:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Alan LaMielle http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/09/23/evince-document-viewer-menu-entry/comment-page-1#comment-144 Alan LaMielle Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:09:15 +0000 http://alan.lamielle.net/?p=479#comment-144 If you are trying to get PDFs to open using an application other than Evince, you may want to try searching for 'ubuntu change default PDF viewer'. The first hit I found was http://vntutor.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-change-default-pdf-reader-in.html. That describes how to change the application association for a given file type: 1) Right click on a file in nautilus of the type in question (pdf) and select properties 2) Select the 'Open With' tab (it may be a different name in different versions of gnome) 3) Select the application you'd like to use instead of Evince (Adobe Reader, Okular, etc) This works system wide (I believe this updates MIME type application associations) and therefore applies to gnome-do. At least it worked for me when I tried it. I'm running Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) right now. If you are trying to get PDFs to open using an application other than Evince, you may want to try searching for ‘ubuntu change default PDF viewer’. The first hit I found was http://vntutor.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-change-default-pdf-reader-in.html. That describes how to change the application association for a given file type:

1) Right click on a file in nautilus of the type in question (pdf) and select properties
2) Select the ‘Open With’ tab (it may be a different name in different versions of gnome)
3) Select the application you’d like to use instead of Evince (Adobe Reader, Okular, etc)

This works system wide (I believe this updates MIME type application associations) and therefore applies to gnome-do. At least it worked for me when I tried it. I’m running Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) right now.

]]> By: timdor http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/09/23/evince-document-viewer-menu-entry/comment-page-1#comment-142 timdor Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:56:54 +0000 http://alan.lamielle.net/?p=479#comment-142 Follow up on my previous post. My fix no longer works after the last update. I have no idea why not. Follow up on my previous post. My fix no longer works after the last update. I have no idea why not.

]]> By: timdor http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/09/23/evince-document-viewer-menu-entry/comment-page-1#comment-141 timdor Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:29:04 +0000 http://alan.lamielle.net/?p=479#comment-141 Thanks to your post I was finally able to figure out how to get gnome-do to open pdf files. I removed the evince.desktop files you mentioned, uninstalled evince and installed Adobe Reader. It worked. Now I can type in the name of the pdf file and gnome-do will open it without my having to use Nautilus. Thanks to your post I was finally able to figure out how to get gnome-do to open pdf files. I removed the evince.desktop files you mentioned, uninstalled evince and installed Adobe Reader. It worked. Now I can type in the name of the pdf file and gnome-do will open it without my having to use Nautilus.

]]> By: bob http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/09/23/evince-document-viewer-menu-entry/comment-page-1#comment-76 bob Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:18:04 +0000 http://alan.lamielle.net/?p=479#comment-76 Try removing the NoDisplay line. Try removing the NoDisplay line.

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