how to configure xdg-open applications?

[Mark Knoop]

At 13:01 on 20 Nov 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I want to change the programs that xdg-open points to for things like
> pdf or dvi.  There are no configure tools I can find on the
> freedesktop site and the xdg-open man page gives no help at all. In
> /etc/xdg I don't see settings for evince or such.  "grep -r pdf *" in
> the /etc/xdg directory returns nothing.
> 
> Throw me some help, please.

apropos xdg
...
xdg-mime             (1)  - command line tool for querying information
about file type handling and adding descriptions for new file types
...

man xdg-mime

should tell you all you need to know.

-- 
Mark Knoop