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| From | Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist |
| Subject | Bug#1005818: task-lxde-desktop: libreoffice is used as default pdf reader |
| Date | 2022-05-08 21:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <EkUs1-e9ud-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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Am Sun, May 08, 2022 at 07:59:02PM +0200 schrieb Holger Wansing:
> > set to "disabled" and I can not change anything here.
>
> Since evince is automatically installed, it's "just" a matter of setting
> evince as the default application for PDF - as you already have tried to :-)
Sure.
> I managed to get this done easily by right-clicking on the PDF file, choose
> "Open with...", then select the app "Document Viewer" (this is evince) from
> "Office" section, set the checkbox for "Set selected application as default
> action for this file type" - and you are done.
... and this should be done as system default for users convenience.
> I did another test install with XFCE desktop environment, and there this
> problem did not exist. Installed PDF viewer was here Atril (from the MATE
> environment).
>
> So, it's after all an problem either with LXDE (the environment) or with
> evince | libreoffice (the packages).
>
> I will reassign this bug to LXDE for now.
Hope it can be fixed there. BTW, I'm not 100% sure whether some unusual
default is also for xfce4 where I have seen starting Gimp to display
PDF.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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http://fam-tille.de
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Bug#1005818: task-lxde-desktop: libreoffice is used as default pdf reader Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2022-05-08 20:10 +0200
Bug#1005818: task-lxde-desktop: libreoffice is used as default pdf reader Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de> - 2022-05-08 21:10 +0200
Bug#1005818: task-lxde-desktop: libreoffice is used as default pdf reader Andriy Grytsenko <andrej@rep.kiev.ua> - 2022-05-12 16:00 +0200
Bug#1005818: task-lxde-desktop: libreoffice is used as default pdf reader Andriy Grytsenko <andrej@rep.kiev.ua> - 2022-05-12 16:40 +0200
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