Re: problem

[Bartosz Kostrzewa <bartek fastmail net>]

fudmer rieley wrote:
> thank you for your reply..  these are exactly the instructions I was
> looking for
> 1. how do I find nautilus, are they part of firefox or ubuntu.
>    nothing I can find says that..

My apologies for not being clear. Nautilus is the default file manager
in GNOME (and therefore Ubuntu). You will access it if you click
"Places" and then "Home folder" in the top panel on your screen.

It also displays your desktop folder so if you have downloaded any PDFs
there, the instructions will also work on your desktop.

> 
> 2.
> 
> --- On *Fri, 8/14/09, Bartosz Kostrzewa /<bartek fastmail net>/* wrote:
> 
> 
>     From: Bartosz Kostrzewa <bartek fastmail net>
>     Subject: Re: problem
>     To: "fudmer rieley" <southofmexico yahoo com>
>     Cc: evince-list gnome org
>     Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 4:19 AM
> 
>     fudmer rieley wrote:
>     >Today I tired to open a pdf file from the IRS and it
>     > changed everything on my set up
> 
>     Could you elaborate on this? There might be an interesting bug hidden in
>     there. What do you mean it "changed everything"? Compared to what?
> 
>     As a fix to your problem, try this:
> 
>     I'm assuming you're referring to opening documents from firefox (as you
>     seem to imply using the "Browse..." function in the "open with" dialog.
> 
>     1) In nautilus navigate to a pdf file of your choice, right click and
>     open the "properties" dialog. Select the "Open With" tab and choose
>     "Document Viewer" there (that's gnome's 'understandable' alias for
>     evince and other document viewers).
> 
>     2) Try opening a pdf from the web now. If firefox is working correctly
>     it will automatically use the setting you've just made above and provide
>     evince as the default file handler. If it isn't, click browse and type
>     /usr/bin/evince in the filechooser.
> 
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