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Force gnome to open PDFs with acroread (or anyother BUT evince!)

Asked by JoseLVG

There seems there is no way to FORCE Gnome to open PDFs with other application than evince.

I try to force using Acrobat Reader isntead of evince by changinf both:

/etc/gnome/defaults.list
AND
~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

And the result is that some apps like thunderbird, chose Acrobat instead of evince conrrectly but both the desktop (GNOME) and nautilus open the PDF file ONLY with evince by default.

How can this be changed?

Tested on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10

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This question was originally filed as bug #294775.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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JoseLVG (josvazg) said : 		#2

Ok, so if it's NOT a bug but a question, then there should be a simple answer, but I am still waiting for it... so probably it is not so simple.

On the other hand, If there is no answer at all, then I guess it' a bug or at least a missing-feature; the fact that I CAN'T force GNOME to use the application I want to open a PDF by default, as I can do with web pages, mail or music.

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Please open nautilus from command line or by pressing on a desktop without other opened window ALT+F2 keyboard keys and write into opened window nautilus.

Nautilus come in front of you: select a pdf file and on the right nautilus frame and right click with mouse a drop down menu come in front of you go to the end of this menu and select:
Properties - click on "Open with" tab
Select "Adobe Reader" application if it is already into list
If you don't have "Adobe Reader" listed please press the "+ Add" button and Select "Adobe Reader" from the opened list of applications.
Then be sure "Adobe Reader" is selected

Hope this helps

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JoseLVG (josvazg) said : 		#4

Thanks,
It worked as expected.

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JoseLVG (josvazg) said : 		#5

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.

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RomanM (uztnus) said : 		#6

Try changing:

/usr/share/applications/defaults.list