Hi Simessimes wrote:In a spirit of helpfulness, I hope, can I report that the PDF viewers are not working in LXPupTahr 14.08. Evince reports that application type pdf is unsupported (!) and Zathura crashes when opening any pdf document. If I ought to be testing 14.08.1 instead now, please say and I'll happily install it.
[EDIT] Have also found that mtpaint does not start (as reported further up the chain), but I am not using Conky.
Thanks for testing with Puppy Tahr.
In my testing on LxPupTahr, evince, zathura and mtpaint all run OK - the problem lies in the mime associations to associate a file with an application.
I don't know why LxPupTahr with evince and zathura behaves differently to LxPup (Slacko flavour) with epdfviewer (although I have noticed that a utility called update-mime-database is present on LxPup and missing on LxPupTahr).
The associations you require can be established in pcmanfm by right clicking on a pdf file and choosing open-with and then selecting evince and ticking use this application as default.
Or you can open the files via rox-filer.....
Similarly for various graphic file types and mtpaint. The problem here is that the mtpaint .desktop file has a different name in TahrPuppy from Slacko.
There are 2 .desktop files for zathura and the one in the menu calls zathura_gui.desktop which opens a file chooser rather than the pdf directly. If you want to have zathura open as default you will need to edit the zathura.desktop file so that a menu entry appears which can be chosen - basically copy the missing lines from the zakura_gui.desktop.
I'll see if I can implement a fix for the next version.
Hope this helps
Cheers
peebee