On Sun, 2001-10-07 at 21:37, Dave Carrigan wrote: > I am having a bear of a time getting the file manager to launch acroread > instead of xpdf when I double click on a .pdf file. It insists on > running xpdf. I went to the Control Center->File Types and selected the > application/pdf mime type. The default action is set to "Open with > Application" and I made sure that I had Adobe Acrobat Reader selected > from the popug menu. However, that didn't work; the file manager still > launched xpdf. > > I tried editing the list and unchecking all applications except for > acroread. No joy. I tried adding a "My Acroread" application to the > list, with no luck. > > In desperation, I did apt-get --purge remove xpdf. Now, the control > center doesn't even list xpdf in the application popup menu. However, > when I double click
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