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LonelyStar
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 Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:56 pm Post subject: chromium opening pdf with evince |
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Hi,
I just discovered chromium and like it very much.
I have trouble downloading and opening pdfs. chromium opens them using firefox. But I want evince!
Where can I change that, I do not find an option ...
Thanks!
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jsn
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Location: Finland
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| Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| In KDE you can set from: System settings [advanced] -> file associations -> PDF. Set the program you prefer. I tested chromium with evince and then with okular as preferred application, it respected both choices when testing. |
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Gusar
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Location: Slovenia
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| Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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What's your desktop environment, LonelyStar? Chromium uses xdg-open to launch files. If you look at xdg-open, it checks for a kde, gnome or xfce session and uses their launchers, otherwise it just opens everything in a browser. If you're not using any of the three environments, you'll need to hack xdg-open or just replace it altogether. For example I use LXDE (which has pcmanfm as file-manager) and have found a very nice and simple script at the Arch forums that does the job perfectly. Just save it as /usr/local/bin/xdg-open:
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
[ -z "$1" ] && exit 1
if echo "${1}" | egrep -q "^(https?://|www.)"; then
firefox "${1}" &
exit
fi
pcmanfm "${1}" |
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ppurka
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jormaa
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Old thread but this still might be of help to someone else. I used the method desribed in http://gordonazmo.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/how-to-enable-googles-pdf-plugin-in-chromium/ , only changing the download address to stable | Code: | | wget http://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb |
and copy location to /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/ | Code: | | sudo cp opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/ |
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Opening pdf now works inside Chromium without a need to enable anthing else. Chromium version www-client/chromium-15.0.874.121 (stable). Will probably need to redo this after update though  .
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ppurka
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:24 am Post subject: |
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| jormaa wrote: | Old thread but this still might be of help to someone else. I used the method desribed in http://gordonazmo.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/how-to-enable-googles-pdf-plugin-in-chromium/ , only changing the download address to stable | Code: | | wget http://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb |
and copy location to /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/ | Code: | | sudo cp opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/ |
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Opening pdf now works inside Chromium without a need to enable anthing else. Chromium version www-client/chromium-15.0.874.121 (stable). Will probably need to redo this after update though . |
Since /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libpdf.so is not isntalled by portage, portage will not remove it when you remove chromium browser. So, as long as there are no problems in using that library, it will be possible for you to upgrade chromium and not redo this step.
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chessmaster
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| Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | | wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb |
Is the link thanks for the post. |
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cfgauss
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| Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| jormaa wrote: | Old thread but this still might be of help to someone else. I used the method desribed in http://gordonazmo.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/how-to-enable-googles-pdf-plugin-in-chromium/ , only changing the download address to stable | Code: | | wget http://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb |
and copy location to /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/ | Code: | | sudo cp opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/ |
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I downloaded libpdf.so, gave it 755 permissions, and Chromium 30.0.1599.22 still uses KDE's okular to open pdf's. I also tried the plugins directory /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/plugins with the same results.
Any hints to get the plugin to work would be gratefully received. |
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