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This is installed from wine applications, and yes unfortunately they can |
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create a mess (like making the wine "notepad" the default text editor). |
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You need to delete those mime applications that wine creates under your home |
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folder. |
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Try something like: |
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rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine |
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or search and delete the file that you told me (wine-extension-pdf). |
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The previous gnome instructions I told you should have worked though. |
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On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Helmut Jarausch < |
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jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 07/07/10 12:45:05, App Deb wrote: |
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> > Right click on a pdf file, select properties -> open with -> and |
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> > select |
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> > evince instead of acroread. |
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> > That it the way to easily change default applications for gnome. |
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> Unfortunately, not for me (Gnome 2.30) |
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> Before and after the above procedure I have |
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> gnomevfs-info MyFile.pdf |
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> still shows |
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> MIME type : application/pdf |
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> Default app : wine-extension-pdf.desktop |
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> I wonder where this 'wine-extension-pdf.desktop' is coming from. |
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> And Balsa tries to use this when viewing a pdf attachment. |
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> I'm lost, |
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> Helmut. |
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> > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Helmut Jarausch < |
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> > jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > > Hi, |
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> > > I've discovered balsa , a great mail client, btw. |
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> > > How can I configure the application which is called for a pdf |
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> > > attachment. |
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> > > I cannot see any configuration item for balsa itself, so I suppose |
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> > > it must be a Gnome setting. |
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> > > Currently it's set to acroread, but I'd like to set it evince. |
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> > > I've checked ~/.mime.types and several files in /usr/share/mime* |
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> > > The only file I've found is |
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> > > /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.keys |
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> > > Is that the right place? How should I edit it (with a standard text |
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> > > editor?) |
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> > > Many thanks for your help, |
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> > > Helmut. |
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