Re: xpdf and other alternatives

["Michael V. De Palatis" <mvd gatech edu>]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:03:37AM -0500, Steve Bergman wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 22:55 -0400, Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I thus far have not been able to find the answer to this
> > question... How can I get Epiphany to use something other than
> > acroread (in particular, xpdf) to view PDFs?
> > 
> 
> As a Gnome app, it should use the default application for that file
> type.
> 
> In Gnome 2.14, I just tried it.  In Nautilus, right-clicking on a pdf
> file and selecting "properties->open with", I found that xpdf is the
> default for .pdf files.  Opening a pdf with epiphany opens it in xpdf.
> I changed it in nautilus to use "Document Viewer" (Evince) and now
> epiphany opens it in evince.

Well, unfortunately that doesn't work for me. I should be forced into
using the Gnome settings daemon just so that I can get my web browser
to use the appropriate helper applications that I want.

This is really probably my biggest complaint about Epiphany -- It is
over-reliant in areas such as this on being a Gnome application, which
means that those of us who prefer not to use Gnome have a harder time
using it.

Are there any other ways to get around me having to run
gnome-settings-daemon?

-- 
Michael V. De Palatis
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Physics
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