MC Midnight Commander: error opening PDF files refers to Dolphin

[poma]

On 15.01.2015 14:46, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> 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 at 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.
> 

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