Cant set default application--kind of

[tdyer]

I have tried setting the default PDF viewer(right-click on the file, properties, open with tab) to be Adobe 8.1.3. I would personally prefer evince, but the boss man "needs" Adobe.

If I double click a pdf it will open in Adobe, if I click on a link in firefox it will open in adobe, however if I use xdg-open or gnome-open it will open with evince.

One of the programs we use opens Adobe through calling xdg-open for linux, gnome-open for solaris.

How can I change what xdg-open of gnome-open uses?

We are using ubuntu 8.04.

Thanks,

Tristan

[mali2297]

I think that xdg-open looks in the user-specific file ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list and/or the system-wide /usr/share/applications/defaults.list. Check if you have any of these files and what they contain.