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From: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com>
Subject: Re: setting default pdf viewer
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:15:28 -0700
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Puneeth Chaganti <punchagan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> wrote:
>> how do i set evince as the default.
>>
>> right now xpdf is, but if i remove it, following a link to a pdf file
>> produces nothing.
>>
>> i'm using gnome and evince is the default there (eg through nautilus),
>> so somehow it seems that orgmode has decided to make xpdf the default
>> instead.
>
> Customize the variable `org-file-apps'.  Look at documentation of the
> variable, for an example and options available.
>
thx Puneeth! that's what i was looking for!
strange thing is that it was already set to default so i thought evince
would come up. then i changed it to system and xpdf still opened it.

anyway, i altered it to 
evince -p %1 %s

and all is well.

-- 
in friendship,
prad