I'm getting acroread instead of evince even though it says it's going to use evince

[Colin Law]

On 22 January 2012 17:31, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 04:01:23PM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 22 January 2012 15:50, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>> > When I click on a .pdf file in a web page Firefox tells me it's loading
>> > it and beside the selected 'Open with' button it says "/usr/bin/evince
>> > (default)" but if I then click the OK button the file gets opened in
>> > acroread.
>> >
>> > /usr/bin/evince is installed and works perfectly OK.
>> >
>> > How do I get Firefox to use evince?
>>
>> What happens if you double click a pdf file in nautilus?
>>
> I never do that!  :-)   I'll just check though .....
>
> I get acroread again.

In nautilus right click a pdf file and select properties, on the Open
With tab select evince and click Set As Default.  Then check that
evince is used in nautilus when you double click a different pdf file.
 Assuming that now works try FF again.

Colin