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Up until yesterday my default PDF viewer was evince. Today, I tried to open a PDF and it opened with ImageMagick. I am trying to change it back to evince but with no success. What I 've tried:

  • Changing it the standard GUI way from the file manager.
  • Editing ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
  • Deleting ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
  • $ xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf
  • Tried with the Trusty version of Ubuntu Tweak (I am on 15.04)

I also checked the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache and /etc/gnome/defaults.list and both have evince.desktop as the first option.

As an extra note, changing other defaults works.

Up until yesterday my default PDF viewer was evince. Today, I tried to open a PDF and it opened with ImageMagick. I am trying to change it back to evince but with no success. What I 've tried:

  • Changing it the standard GUI way from the file manager.
  • Editing ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
  • Deleting ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
  • $ xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf

I also checked the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache and /etc/gnome/defaults.list and both have evince.desktop as the first option.

As an extra note, changing other defaults works.

Up until yesterday my default PDF viewer was evince. Today, I tried to open a PDF and it opened with ImageMagick. I am trying to change it back to evince but with no success. What I 've tried:

  • Changing it the standard GUI way from the file manager.
  • Editing ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
  • Deleting ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
  • $ xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf
  • Tried with the Trusty version of Ubuntu Tweak (I am on 15.04)

I also checked the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache and /etc/gnome/defaults.list and both have evince.desktop as the first option.

As an extra note, changing other defaults works.

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Chris
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Can't change PDF default

Up until yesterday my default PDF viewer was evince. Today, I tried to open a PDF and it opened with ImageMagick. I am trying to change it back to evince but with no success. What I 've tried:

  • Changing it the standard GUI way from the file manager.
  • Editing ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
  • Deleting ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
  • $ xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf

I also checked the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache and /etc/gnome/defaults.list and both have evince.desktop as the first option.

As an extra note, changing other defaults works.