In Centos 5.3, a bad problem has surfaced in user land. We want to use either Evince or Adobe acroread as the pdf view, but the update of kdegraphics has somehow screwed up these systems so that the odious, horrible, awful pdf viewer kghostview is used. It is what you get when you doubleclick on pdf files, it is what programs get when they try to use xdg-open framework.
This happens even though xdg-open seems to think it is pointing at Adobe.
$ xdg-mime query filetype manual.pdf application/pdf $ xdg-mime query default application/pdf AdobeReader.desktop
I've had it happen before that users make mistakes and then the mime types are accidentally re-defined in the user accounts. I have not had it happen across all users accounts that something goes so wrong.
How can I tell the Gnome mime system to always use evince for opening pdf, not kghostview?
What's wrong with xdg-open? It says AdobeReader.desktop, but it points applications at the other.
Thanks in advance
PJ