I installed evince on my Arch Linux system as a PDF reader, and everything was fine for a while. And then I installed GIMP. Since then, PDF files have been opening in GIMP. I've tried reinstalling evince, I've tried editing ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list , I've tried editing /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, but PDF files still open in GIMP by default.
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Macha
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What desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, ...) are you using? – Benjamin Bannier Jul 30 '10 at 20:58
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What DE are you using (if any)? [OOPS!] – dag729 Jul 30 '10 at 20:58
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How are you opening the PDF? Nautilus, command-line, browser, etc.? – Matthew Flaschen Jul 30 '10 at 20:58
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2I am using GNOME. (stupid 10 char limit) – Macha Jul 30 '10 at 20:59
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@Matthew: Broswer and Nautilus, same result. – Macha Jul 30 '10 at 21:02
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A bit of further research found that the offending file was ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.lst
Macha
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GNOME, but the link applies to KDE, so they seem to be the same in this regard. – Macha Jul 30 '10 at 21:03
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thanks for answer and question. i encountered this very problem lately but was to lazy to look into that matter. done now :) – matthias krull Jul 30 '10 at 21:47
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Just a note. Under Kubuntu 18.04 I found the file in `~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list` with `.list` instead of `.lst`... – Hastur Feb 15 '21 at 06:34
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I found that Firefox uses the XDG standard, so using the XDG command line apps to set default applications solved the problem for me.
$ xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf
This tells anything using XDG to use Evince to open application/pdf files.
There's more info where I found this, on the ArchLinux wiki.
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