Wrong PDF application in Zotero Standalone

maxsu
Hi guys,

I'm having a little trouble with Zotero.

My System:
I'm Running Zotero Standalone 3.0.8, in Debian linux.

The problem:
When I 'View PDF', Zotero opens Mendeley Desktop. My desktop's standard PDF application is set to Zathura.

Is there a way to reconfigure the standard viewer that Zotero Stanalone uses?

Thanks!

Max
  • dstillman
    See File Handling Issues.

    (Zotero certainly isn't launching Mendeley itself.)
  • maxsu
    Thanks Dan! I solved the problem with that info.

    The solution was to add the line: application/pdf=zathura.desktop
    to my ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list file.
  • maxsu
    And yes, I'm sure Zotero would never intentionally launch Mendeley ;)

    The odd aspect is that I've looked at all my defaults.list files and found no mention of mendeley.
  • dstillman
    edited August 9, 2012
    I'm guessing that Mendeley associated itself with PDFs in some way or another, but I couldn't tell you where. I suspect the list of relevant files on that page isn't exhaustive. That's the beauty of Linux!

    Edit: Oh, actually, that page lists only one file. I think that tip originated from a thread on some Linux forum that listed, if I recall, 3 or 4 different possible files that could influence this.

    Edit 2: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=837034

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