Re: [O] setting default pdf viewer

[Nick Dokos]

prad <address@hidden> wrote:

> how do i set evince as the default.
> 
> right now xpdf is, but if i remove it, following a link to a pdf file
> produces nothing.
> 
> i'm using gnome and evince is the default there (eg through nautilus),
> so somehow it seems that orgmode has decided to make xpdf the default
> instead.
> 

But why is org using xpdf, if the system default is evince?

What OS are you running? At least on unix/linux-y systems, you shouldn't
have to customize org-file-apps: just check ~/.mailcap (and/or
/etc/mailcap).

IMO, changing mailcap has the advantage that *all* mailcap-enabled
applications will do the right thing, whereas customizing org-file-apps
just fixes org (I'm assuming of course that you always want evince, not
sometimes one and sometimes the other.)

Nick