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How to install helper applications
by Tilo Baumann
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I use Galeon 1.3.20 on Debian Sarge. My window manager ist fvwm2. (I
know of the newer versions of galeon.) I used to use Acroread for viewing pdf files when browsing, but want to change to xpdf. My steps: * uninstall Acroread as plugin. * install xpdf * searching for installation of xpdf as default helper application whenever pdf is to be displayed within/out of the browser. So far when linking to a pdf file galeon offers an alert of two helper application to choose of, one of which is xpdf (the other acroread). I want to eliminate this step: when linking to a pdf file galeon should start xpdf without asking me. Installation of such defaults used to be an option in the menu called 'helper application' or, perhaps, 'mime types'. How is it done now? The above question is not restricted to xpdf but concerns every helper application. Additional question: is xpdf installable as a plugin? I know of: gconf-editor about:config about:plugins That does not seem to be enough. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Galeon-user mailing list Galeon-user@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/galeon-user |
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Re: How to install helper applications
by Bugzilla from michael.mauch@gmx.de
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Tilo Baumann wrote:
> I use Galeon 1.3.20 on Debian Sarge. My window manager ist fvwm2. (I > know of the newer versions of galeon.) > > I used to use Acroread for viewing pdf files when browsing, but want to > change to xpdf. > So far when linking to a pdf file galeon offers an alert of two > helper application to choose of, one of which is xpdf (the other acroread). > > I want to eliminate this step: when linking to a pdf file galeon should > start xpdf without asking me. > > Installation of such defaults used to be an option in the menu called > 'helper application' or, perhaps, 'mime types'. How is it done now? > > The above question is not restricted to xpdf but concerns every helper > application. Perhaps it works if you start "nautilus --no-desktop", find a .pdf file, right-click on it -> Properties -> Open With. I think that's the way it's supposed to work (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong). If that doesn't help, you could remove the offending .desktop file and run update-desktop-database (perhaps as root). A web search for 'galeon update-desktop-database' also finds e.g. <http://www.linuxforen.de/forums/showthread.php?t=216790>. <http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/desktop-file-utils> also could be useful. > Additional question: is xpdf installable as a plugin? I don't think so. Regards... Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Galeon-user mailing list Galeon-user@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/galeon-user |
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Re: How to install helper applications
by Tilo Baumann
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 05:44:02PM +0200 Michael Mauch wrote:
> Tilo Baumann wrote: > > So far when linking to a pdf file galeon offers an alert of two > > helper application to choose of, one of which is xpdf (the other acroread). > > > > I want to eliminate this step: when linking to a pdf file galeon should > > start xpdf without asking me. > > Installation of such defaults used to be an option in the menu called > > 'helper application' or, perhaps, 'mime types'. How is it done now? I checked it up in an old mozilla, and find it working with just a click on the link. > Perhaps it works if you start "nautilus --no-desktop", find a .pdf file, > right-click on it -> Properties -> Open With. I think that's the way > it's supposed to work (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong). liedena:~# apt-get install nautilus The following extra packages will be installed: capplets capplets-data desktop-base docbook-xml gnome-desktop-data gnome-icon-theme gnome-session hicolor-icon-theme libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 libgstreamer0.8-0 libmetacity0 libscrollkeeper0 libxklavier8 libxslt1.1 nautilus-data scrollkeeper sgml-base sgml-data xml-core Need to get 14,3MB of archives. After unpacking 48,8MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n I said 'no', today, but will think it over as it is no great fuss to delete those packages if I don't them anymore. > If that doesn't help, you could remove the offending .desktop file and > run update-desktop-database (perhaps as root). That is what I did. More exactly: I didn't remove AdobeReader.desktop but edited mimeinfo.cache. > A web search for 'galeon update-desktop-database' also finds e.g. > <http://www.linuxforen.de/forums/showthread.php?t=216790>. ok, that is the same suggestion. However, copying mimeinfo.cache into ~/local/share/applications (as suggested) did not work. I further rely on it located in /usr/share/applications/. > <http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/desktop-file-utils> also could be > useful. In respect to that page I am a bit helpless. Can you be more specific? Thanks for your answer, Michael! Tilo PS: If you/somebody can give me advice how to use 'mailto' with mutt I would appreciate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Galeon-user mailing list Galeon-user@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/galeon-user |
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Re: How to install helper applications
by Jesko
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Am Freitag, den 06.06.2008, 21:38 +0200 schrieb Tilo Baumann: > -- # update-desktop-database > -- removed 'AdobeReader.desktop' in /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache > in the line with application/pdf leaving there just 'xpdf.desktop'. > > That eliminates the need to select between those two viewers, and I may > press 'open' at once. > > I would like to have xpdf started at once, though. I think you can't prevent Galeon from asking whether to save the file or to use an external helper, if there is no appropriate plugin. > Additional question: is xpdf installable as a plugin? But you can use xpdf as an plugin by installing the "plugger"-plugin: (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html), which was written for mozilla, but works with galeon too. Unfortunately there is no documentation on the plugger-site, but if neither AdobeReader nor ghostview is installed on your system, no change to the default configuration is needed to use xpdf to view pdf files within your browser. Otherwise you just have to comment out the lines for acroread and/or gv in the PDF section of "/etc/pluggerrc-5.1.3" (or copy this file to $HOME/.plugger/ and do the changes there). If it doesn't work, maybe <http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/troubleshooting.html> gives help. -- Jesko Zusätzliche Kontaktinformationen: http://www.yeahchaos.de/jesko ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Galeon-user mailing list Galeon-user@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/galeon-user |
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Re: How to install helper applications
by Tilo Baumann
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Am Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 02:41:55PM +0200 schrieb Jesko:
> Am Freitag, den 06.06.2008, 21:38 +0200 schrieb Tilo Baumann: > > I would like to have xpdf started at once, though. > > I think you can't prevent Galeon from asking whether to save the file or > to use an external helper, if there is no appropriate plugin. Ok, it seems to be a feature of galeon, I thought it to be a mistake of mine. > But you can use xpdf as an plugin by installing the "plugger"-plugin: > (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html), which was written for mozilla, Ok, I looked for it, found it and tried to install it. make would not run without errors: pluginsdk/include/npapi.h is missing. It is offered by Debian in a mozilla-dev or mozilla-thunderbird-dev package. I will think of installing it. In the meantime, however, I happened to use another computer of mine and was astonished to find installed File name: mozplugger.so MozPlugger version 1.7.3, written by Fredrik Hübinette <hubbe@...> and Louis Bavoil <bavoil@...> and working fine. It is written by the same author, and seems to be a predecessor of the program you recommended/suggested. Do you know of differences? Thanks for your answer! PS: I am still looking for installing mailto in galeon using mutt. If you or somebody ... Tilo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Galeon-user mailing list Galeon-user@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/galeon-user |
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