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

[Liam Proven]

On 23 January 2012 10:44, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:42:07PM +0000, Liam Proven 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?
>>
>> Are pages opening inside Firefox or is it spawning a new separate process?
>>
>> Adobe Reader has a plugin; Evince doesn't. If Acroread is installed,
>> Firefox will use the plugin rather than an external program - *I
>> believe.*
>>
> I've turned the plugin off,

Ah. I think you had not mentioned that before?

> for two reasons, firstly I prefer the PDF to
> appear in a separate window

That seems odd to me, but OK.

> and secondly it quite often doesn't work and
> simply produces a blank (often black) window in Firefox.

That seems strange and might suggest that you have a separate problem.

>> If you disable or remove the plugin, then it will be down to 2
>> external programs and the mechanism of choosing which, or setting the
>> default, should work.
>>
> That was the problem, although Firefox seemed to think that evince was
> still the default, it wasn't.

The setting is a GNOME one and Firefox is not a native GNOME app, so
perhaps it was reading the wrong setting or something...?

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