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Any way to change what Opera thinks is the default application to open files?
I'm running Opera 11.51 on a 32-bit Ubuntu 11.04 install. I'm not sure how it happened (I think it's always been that way on this machine), but Opera is under the impression that the default application to open .pdf files is ebook-viewer, even though Ubuntu is under the impression that Evince is the default application for files like that.If I double-click a .pdf in Nautilus, Evince gloriously starts in all of it's super-fast glory. If I double-click a downloaded .pdf in the 'Downloads' tab in Opera, then I have to wait the 75 billion years for ebook-viewer to start.
I know that I can just tell Opera to open .pdf files with a different application, but I prefer downloading the .pdfs and then double-clicking in the 'Downloads' tab (trust me, there are reasons why this is easier in my life).
Thoughts?
Thanks
Not exactly ...
Back in the old days the problem was that Opera defaulted to (trying to) use KDE's file actions when opening files, there was a hack to tell it to use gnome-open as the default action when none was specified - but that was before Opera implemented reading your system's MIME data to try to determine the correct action and thus I don't know if setting such a default would even work now. (And I'm not completely certain if current versions of Gnome still have gnome-open, as I do use KDE myself.)
You could certainly tell Opera what to do with PDF files, but I'm not sure your more general question has an answer any more ...
Back in the old days the problem was that Opera defaulted to (trying to) use KDE's file actions when opening files, there was a hack to tell it to use gnome-open as the default action when none was specified - but that was before Opera implemented reading your system's MIME data to try to determine the correct action and thus I don't know if setting such a default would even work now. (And I'm not completely certain if current versions of Gnome still have gnome-open, as I do use KDE myself.)
You could certainly tell Opera what to do with PDF files, but I'm not sure your more general question has an answer any more ...
Tamil - appreciate the link, but my issue is more to changing what application is pointed to with "Open with default application". For some reason Opera has picked the wrong horse. From sgunhouse's post, it sounds like Opera picked the file association from some place other than wherever Nautilus picks it's associations. Guess I'm going to have to dig a bit more into how that's happening.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Opera 11.50 Linux
Ditto here.
Opera thinks GIMP is the default application for PDFs. I have edited the MIME type / action and told Opera to use Okular. But no go. The default application remains GIMP, and Opera insists of opening a PDF with the default application.
I am using KDE 4.4.5. All other applications understand that either they should use KDE settings. OR prefer their own settings.
Why did Opera choose GIMP in the first place and how do I change GIMP to Okular. If Opera doesn't want to use my preference, let me at least chance Opera's default.
jlinkels
Ditto here.
Opera thinks GIMP is the default application for PDFs. I have edited the MIME type / action and told Opera to use Okular. But no go. The default application remains GIMP, and Opera insists of opening a PDF with the default application.
I am using KDE 4.4.5. All other applications understand that either they should use KDE settings. OR prefer their own settings.
Why did Opera choose GIMP in the first place and how do I change GIMP to Okular. If Opera doesn't want to use my preference, let me at least chance Opera's default.
jlinkels
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