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On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:08:15PM -0700, Joseph wrote |
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> I'm using mutt and trying to view pdf files using evince but it is |
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> not working. |
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> I have added to /etc/mailcap application/pdf; evince %s; |
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> description="Postscript files"; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" -a -n "`which evince 2>/dev/null`" |
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> but it makes no difference. What am I doing wrong :-/ |
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Questions; |
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1) Why are you modifying /etc/mailcap ? Are you aware that ~/.mailcap |
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overrides /etc/mailcap, and is the recommended way to go? If you have |
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an entry for application/pdf in ~/.mailcap then changing /etc/mailcap |
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won't help. |
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2) I use mupdf; should be similar. My ~/.mailcap has the line... |
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application/pdf; /usr/bin/mupdf '%s' ; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" |
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...so try... |
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application/pdf; /usr/bin/evince '%s' ; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" |
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...in your ~/.mailcap |
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3) Are you sure that all pdf's are coming in as application/pdf ? A |
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few years ago, my ISP "went Microsoft", and changed their pdf billing |
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statements from application/pdf to "application/octet-stream". This |
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requires the following entry in ~/.mailcap (or /etc/mailcap if you |
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insist) |
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application/octet-stream; mimeopen %s |
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The first time it encounters an "application/octet-stream" file with a |
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pdf extension, you'll get a dialogue, asking which program to use. It |
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can be set to use that program without asking again. mimeopen maintains |
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a list of the different programs to use with different file-extensions. |
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If you don't have mimeopen installed, you can... |
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emerge dev-perl/File-MimeInfo |
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...to install it. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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