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[fudmer rieley]

i am using ubuntu.. Today I tired to open a pdf file from the IRS and it changed everything on my set up so that I can no longer just click on the pdf file and it will open in evince.. 

How do I reset that, the selection in browse does not show me a way to locate evince on my standard install ubuntu..

help, thanks.

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[Bartosz Kostrzewa-2]

fudmer rieley wrote:
>Today I tired to open a pdf file from the IRS and it
> changed everything on my set up

Could you elaborate on this? There might be an interesting bug hidden in
there. What do you mean it "changed everything"? Compared to what?

As a fix to your problem, try this:

I'm assuming you're referring to opening documents from firefox (as you
seem to imply using the "Browse..." function in the "open with" dialog.

1) In nautilus navigate to a pdf file of your choice, right click and
open the "properties" dialog. Select the "Open With" tab and choose
"Document Viewer" there (that's gnome's 'understandable' alias for
evince and other document viewers).

2) Try opening a pdf from the web now. If firefox is working correctly
it will automatically use the setting you've just made above and provide
evince as the default file handler. If it isn't, click browse and type
/usr/bin/evince in the filechooser.


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[Bartosz Kostrzewa-2]

fudmer rieley wrote:
> thank you for your reply..  these are exactly the instructions I was
> looking for
> 1. how do I find nautilus, are they part of firefox or ubuntu.
>    nothing I can find says that..

My apologies for not being clear. Nautilus is the default file manager
in GNOME (and therefore Ubuntu). You will access it if you click
"Places" and then "Home folder" in the top panel on your screen.

It also displays your desktop folder so if you have downloaded any PDFs
there, the instructions will also work on your desktop.

>
> 2.
>
> --- On *Fri, 8/14/09, Bartosz Kostrzewa /<bartek@...>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Bartosz Kostrzewa <bartek@...>
>     Subject: Re: problem
>     To: "fudmer rieley" <southofmexico@...>
>     Cc: evince-list@...
>     Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 4:19 AM
>
>     fudmer rieley wrote:
>     >Today I tired to open a pdf file from the IRS and it
>     > changed everything on my set up
>
>     Could you elaborate on this? There might be an interesting bug hidden in
>     there. What do you mean it "changed everything"? Compared to what?
>
>     As a fix to your problem, try this:
>
>     I'm assuming you're referring to opening documents from firefox (as you
>     seem to imply using the "Browse..." function in the "open with" dialog.
>
>     1) In nautilus navigate to a pdf file of your choice, right click and
>     open the "properties" dialog. Select the "Open With" tab and choose
>     "Document Viewer" there (that's gnome's 'understandable' alias for
>     evince and other document viewers).
>
>     2) Try opening a pdf from the web now. If firefox is working correctly
>     it will automatically use the setting you've just made above and provide
>     evince as the default file handler. If it isn't, click browse and type
>     /usr/bin/evince in the filechooser.
>
>
>

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