Re: MC Midnight Commander: error opening PDF files refers to Dolphin
On 14-01-15 22:07, poma wrote:
On 14.01.2015 07:55, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 13:23 +0100, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
>> I have always used MC as my commandline filemanager and really like
>> it. However, since Fedora 21, when opening a PDF file it always shows
>> an error that it cannot open "/usr/bin/dolphin" which is
>> understandable, because by default gnome uses a different file manager
>> (Nautilus I think).
> I haven't used MC for ages, but can you try simply changing the
> preferences for what MC uses to open PDF files? MC may have defaulted
> for using a KDE client, instead of something else.
>
> Some things palm off opening files to some other file handler, such as
> gnome-open, or xdg-open (the latter is less biased towards a particular
> desktop), which check the file to see what it is, then open it with an
> appropriate default program. If MC does that, it may be that you need
> to configure /that/ handler instead of MC.
>
>
Actually, MC doesn't show anything in "Command / Edit extension file"
where I would expect PDF files to be specified, as far as I can see they
are not. Still, MC tries to open /usr/bin/dolphin, which I haven't
installed and don't want to install.
I checked out xdg-mime (thanks poma) and it shows xpdf as executable
(which *is* installed):
[gbonnema@mahatma ~]$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
xpdf.desktop
So I was wondering, could the pdf extention be hidden in a regular
expression in such a way that I don't recognize it as being pdf? I have
no idea why mc wants to load /usr/bin/dolphin.
Kind regards, Guus.