MC Midnight Commander: error opening PDF files refers to Dolphin

A.J. Bonnema gbonnema at xs4all.nl
Fri Jan 16 15:57:28 UTC 2015


On 16-01-15 13:32, poma wrote:
> > 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*
>
>
Well, that got me a file called 
.local/share/xfce4/helpers/custom-FileManager.desktop that contained the 
instruction to load /usr/bin/dolphin.
So I changed dolphin to nautilus and voila: I got nautilus.

When I removed the xfce4 directory from .local/share, the most weird 
thing happened. Restarting MC I entered on the pdf again, and this time 
got an XFCE request to choose a default filemanager. Remark that I am 
working from gnome!

Ok, so apparantly MC has a connection to XFCE4 even if it is not 
running. What does MC want with XFCE configuration? Why does it want to 
open a filemanager in stead of a pdf reader?

I attached the 2 dialogs in screenprint I got from mc.

Regards, Guus.

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