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Choosing default applications (Calibre, PDF)

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  Choosing default applications (Calibre, PDF) Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2016-03-08 10:50 +0100
    Re: Choosing default applications (Calibre, PDF) Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2016-03-08 12:00 +0100

#165109 — Choosing default applications (Calibre, PDF)

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I'm using Calibre for reading magazines and books. I have it installed
on two machines which both are running Debian 8 with very similar
installation (no desktop environment, i3 window manager).

When I click to read a PDF book in Calibre one of my machines opens
Okular (the general KDE media viewer) whereas the other machine opens
Gimp (and that's really annoying). Both machines have Okular installed
and I'd like to use that. Both machines have KDE's file associations set
correctly (I think): Okular is the first application in the preference
order for type application/pdf (in systemsettings / file associations).

So what would you suggest? How do I configure the default pdf viewer?

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Teemu Likonen [2016-03-08 11:40:12+02] wrote:

> (no desktop environment, i3 window manager).

> How do I configure the default pdf viewer?

I found it. If libfile-mimeinfo-perl package is installed and there's no
desktop environment command xdg-open uses mimeopen to open files. One of
my machines had libfile-mimeinfo-perl installed and the other machine
hadn't. That's why there was different behavior. With
libfile-mimeinfo-perl installed command "mimeopen -d file.pdf" can be
used to set default file type and program associations.

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