Zotero-deb 7.0.11 Installation Wont Open PDFs Using System's Default Application

ventolinmx

I was using the Snap installation of Zotero, but because it has been pointed out in the forums that this was buggy, I installed a new instance using Zotero-deb as suggested and this does not opens the pdfs with Okular that is the program configured as the system default application. My Snap installation of Zotero opens pdfs with my default application without problems.

How can I fix this?

samvimes

Did you change the setting in Zotero's preferences (under "General", "Open PDFs using...")?

ventolinmx

Hi samvimes. Yes, it is configured to: "System Default".

dstillman

You don't say what actually happens, but see https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/file_handling_issues#pdfs_opening_in_wrong_application_on_linux_systems

ventolinmx

Hi dstillman

Zotero with System Default configured opens the PDFs with Evince. The file manager (Nautilus) opens PDfs with Okular and the file associations configured with "Open With" > Default Application is set up to Okular.

I followed that link, didn't had a defaults.list file but I followed the instructions to create one and nothing changed. Zotero keeps opening PDFs with Evince.

Does it matters if Okular is installed with Snap? Maybe default.list needs a different content because Okular is a Snap package?

dstillman

As it says there, if you're having trouble, the easiest option is to just pick a specific reader from the menu in the Zotero settings. This isn't something we can help debug on Linux — too many things can influence file handling.

ventolinmx

Thank you.

I tried that before but I couldn't locate where Snap's executable were located so I looked for this again.

For anyone interested Snap executables are under:

(root)/snap/bin/ so setting Zotero to snap/bin/okular does it.