Re: How to install helper applications

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
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