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Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click [SOLVED!]

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On 1/30/17, 3:25 PM, in article D4B50B69.8C8B9%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com,
"Snit" <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

> On 1/30/17, 3:19 PM, in article ef9sghFpsv6U1@mid.individual.net, "Mike
> Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> Snit wrote:
>>> Wildman wrote:
>>>> Snit wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> it still will not
>>>>> let me change the default app for opening PDFs.
>> 
>> I don't like to look at vids.  I glanced and saw something about
>> ImageMagick.  IM is good for gfx files, not .pdf/s.
> 
> Right... which is why it is a poor choice for opening the PDFs. When it
> does, though, it also messes up font spacing which is odd (in addition to
> understandably making things less clear).
> 
>>>> Open Thunar, browse to a pdf, right-click and select
>>>> Properties.  Under the 'Open With' drop-down box,
>>>> select Other Application...  Find the application
>>>> you want and click OK.  Done.  No need to manually
>>>> edit anything.
>>> 
>>> I know there are many times users SAY they have done something and have
>>> not... so here is a video: <https://youtu.be/pW4b5oemBMw>.
>>> 
>>> As noted in the video, it does work for .mp4 files, but not PDF. Odd.
>> 
>> The default .pdf viewer for xfce4 Mint18 is called 'document viewer' or
>> xreader.  You can find it in the xfce menu by using the All
>> (applications) function and finding it alphabetically as document viewer
>> or starting it from the commandline with xreader.
> 
> Right... or right-clicking on the PDF and selecting Open With >
> 
> But the problem is when I go to properties it does not let me change the
> default. It should. I know you said you do not like videos, but here is a 41
> second one that shows the exact problem: <https://youtu.be/pW4b5oemBMw>.
> That way it is clear it is not user error (or if it is user error that
> should be clear, too!)
> 
> Exact same thing works for .mp4 files.
> 

Problem solved. I went to /usr/share/applications and deleted the
ImageMagick desktop configuration files. The association now works
correctly.

Thanks all who offered support.

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Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-29 13:41 -0700
  Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-29 15:07 -0700
  Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 10:10 -0800
    Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 11:41 -0700
      Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 11:01 -0800
        Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2017-01-30 20:38 +0100
          Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:09 -0700
        Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 12:38 -0700
          Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2017-01-30 14:15 -0600
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:23 -0700
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:53 -0700
              Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 14:19 -0800
                Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 15:25 -0700
                Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click [SOLVED!] Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 16:24 -0700
          Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 12:15 -0800
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:22 -0700
            Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 12:22 -0800
              Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:51 -0700
      Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2017-01-30 11:43 -0800
        Re: Mint Cinnamon: Printing, Monitor Settings, and right click Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-01-30 13:12 -0700

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