MC Midnight Commander: error opening PDF files refers to Dolphin

A.J. Bonnema gbonnema at xs4all.nl
Sat Jan 17 02:10:29 UTC 2015


On 16-01-15 19:44, poma wrote:
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> This works for me.
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> $ cp /etc/mc/mc.ext ~/.config/mc/
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> $ sed -i 's/\/usr\/libexec\/mc\/ext.d\/doc.sh open pdf/\
> xpdf ${MC_EXT_FILENAME} >\/dev\/null 2>\&1 \&/g' ~/.config/mc/mc.ext
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> $ grep xpdf ~/.config/mc/mc.ext
> xpdf ${MC_EXT_FILENAME} >/dev/null 2>&1 &
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> If this doesn't work for you, start over with a clean user environment.
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Hey Poma,

Thanks. That did it. Although I just inserted it by hand without sed. 
Now I changed it to okular cause that is what I normally work with.
Still weird that only this user has this problem.

Anyway, thanks for pointing the way.

Kind regards, Guus.


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