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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 20:18:55
Message-Id: 20150110231828.af4846cc05348714c1a7e63f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer by lee
1 On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:25:54 +0100 lee wrote:
2 > Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> writes:
3 >
4 > > On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:49:56 +0100 lee wrote:
5 > >> Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> writes:
6 > >>
7 > >> > When I need something simple (e.g. to read pdf books) I use mupdf.
8 > >>
9 > >> How did you get mupdf to display a pdf?
10 > >
11 > > Just run it:
12 > > $ mupdf file.pdf
13 > >
14 > > In my case mupdf is configured as follows:
15 > > Installed versions: 1.5-r1(02:19:48 AM 12/28/2014)(X curl openssl -static -static-libs -vanilla)
16 >
17 > There's only 'utool' and no 'mupdf'.
18
19 You should enable USE="X" as I wrote above.
20
21 > >> How do I get seamonkey to suggest llpp as application to view PDFs?
22 > >> Sometimes it suggests emacsclient, sometimes "browse" ...
23 > >
24 > > I don't use seamonkey, so I can't get an exact advice, but in general
25 > > there are two ways to do this:
26 > >
27 > > 1) Configure your handlers in seamonkey.
28 >
29 > How?
30
31 I don't have seamonkey, read its manual.
32
33 > > 2) Configure your default mime handler using xdg-mime.
34 >
35 > Hm, xdg-mime is not installed; I've never heared of it.
36
37 x11-misc/xdg-utils
38 Most WM/DE will pull this package.
39
40 Best regards,
41 Andrew Savchenko

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