Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> I want to change the programs that xdg-open points to for things like >>> pdf or dvi. There are no configure tools I can find on the >>> freedesktop site and the xdg-open man page gives no help at all. In >>> /etc/xdg I don't see settings for evince or such. "grep -r pdf *" in >>> the /etc/xdg directory returns nothing. >>> >>> Throw me some help, please. >> >> xdg-open uses the default apps as defined by the desktop you're using >> (gnome, kde, etc...). So, the question becomes, which desktop are you >> using? Do you need help setting the default .pdf app on desktop foo? >> >> -- Rex >> > > Well, I use several different desktops, if you must know. On all of > them LyX runs and uses xdg-open to grab pdf files, and I had thought > that the freedesktop framework was aiming at having a > desktop-brand-free method of specifying what applications are used. > That is the long term goal, I think. Googling tells me that many > people have the same desire, but it is not implemented YET because the > freedesktop people are coming along with general standards after the > desktop systems evolved. > > But I have something of an answer. The previous poster points me to > the xdg-mime program. It is used to set the default applications. I've > been testing it and reading its source code. It is not a general > application chooser. Rather, it "adjusts most desktops" to use a > program program. If you run it in your current environment, it tells > you what is specified if it understands what desktop you are previous > running (AFAIK, it is OK for Gnome,KDE, and XFCE, but not for a less > desktopish desktop like an old fashioned window-manager-only setup > like WindowMaker. If you use xdg-mime to set a value, it tries to > set values for Gnome, KDE, and XFCE if it finds them in your system. > It can set them either for the whole system or the user account. > > Another answer I've found is that Gnome users can hand edit this file: > > /usr/share/applications/defaults.list > > That is the "gnome" way of doing it system wide, and xdg-mime just > edits that file for you. > > If an individual user already has this file, > > ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list > > then system-wide changes will have no effect, and users have to either > edit their own defaults.list or delete it and let it be re-created by > the desktop environment. That will copy the system-wide set into the > user's account. > > But, then again, this is all stuff I've pieced together in the last 2 > hours, so hopefully the program maintainers will step up and tell us > if I have it wrong. Excellent detective work! :) Good news for all that latter stuff about defaults.list... Most desktops (including kde4) use that same spec/standard too. -- Rex -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
