On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Piotr Ozarowski wrote:
> [Theodore Kilgore, 2013-01-18] > > "xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application" > > explicitly mentioning "a file or a url" and then it says > > "If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred > > application for files of that type." These words would indicate that it is > > going to open a file by doing something to the file, not by doing the > > extraneous act of starting a web browser. > > do you have something like: > > application/pdf; xpdf '%s'; prioryty=1; test=test -n > "$DISPLAY" > > in ~/.mailcap or /etc/mailcap? No I did not. If not, can you add it to ~/.mailcap and check > xdg-open again? > > You can also add to ~/.mime.types: I have no such file > > application/pdf pdf (didn't try adding any .mime.types file. Are you sure it isn't "xpdf" at the end?) > > if /etc/mime.types doesn't have it. No such file in /etc, either. The man page says it has something to do with cups. I do have a networked printer at the office, and I do have cups installed, and it sends things to the printer all the same. Thus so far I have not been missing this file. No help from adding the line to .mailcap. Theodore Kilgore > -- > Piotr O?arowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer > www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org > GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 > _______________________________________________ > mc mailing list > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
