MC Midnight Commander: error opening PDF files refers to Dolphin

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 12:32:26 UTC 2015


On 16.01.2015 11:58, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> On 15-01-15 22:16, poma wrote:
>> On 15.01.2015 14:46, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Check within the newly created user.
>>
> In a newly created user, mc works with pdf as expected. It does not try 
> to invoke /usr/bin/dolphin.
> So, I moved .mc out of the way and viola!   ......    it still calls 
> /usr/bin/dolphin ...... :( This is so weird. Where could the directive 
> to load /usr/bin/dolphin be hidden if not in .mc configuration files?
> 
> I suspect mc is listening to a different default setting configuration 
> file, but I am running gnome, not kde.
> Dolphin is the default kde file manager, so I removed ".kde", but still 
> the same response. I wonder where mc gets the instruction to load 
> /usr/bin/dolphin when I enter on a pdf file?
> 
> 

See if you can find something interesting:
$ find ~/.local -name mime*




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