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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

​works great! I'll submit a patch in a sec.

cheers
Fabrizio
​

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Fabrizio,
>
> Try replacing wxMimeTypeManager with wxLaunchDefaultApplication[1].  It
> looks like this might be a better solution.  I would try it myself but
> I'm at work and don't have access to a linux system.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> [1]:
> http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/group__group__funcmacro__misc.html#
> ga04038d4c78e4c111d018b8f82b2d66c3
>
> On 6/7/2017 3:37 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> > Hi Wayne,
> > it is indeed checked and it appears to be a 2 year old bug.....
> >
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.wxwidgets.devel/162783
> >
> > Any idea of how to properly fix this problem?
> >
> > cheers
> > Fabrizio
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 6/6/2017 4:17 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> >     > ​Apologies for presenting this problem again and again
> >     >
> >     >  I think this topic came up too many times but (on my linux
> system) the
> >     > default PDF viewer is not pulled correctly by kiCad. From the
> terminal:
> >     >
> >     > $ cat /usr/share/applications/defaults.list  | grep pdf
> >     > application/pdf=xreader.desktop;evince.desktop;atril.desktop
> >
> >     Is this the same as the mime type?  Look at another app such as
> >     Thunderbird and see what app it uses to open PDF files.
> >
> >     >
> >     > but KiCad insist using Gimp.
> >
> >     Is Preferences->PDF Viewer->System Default PDF Viewer in the KiCad
> >     launcher checked?  If not, KiCad will attempt to fall back on some
> >     reasonable default.  If it is checked, then there is most likely a
> bug
> >     in wxMimeTypeManager which is used to determine the system command to
> >     open a PDF file.
> >
> >     >
> >     > can anybody point me to the right direction? I am looking at
> preferences.cpp
> >
> >     The source file you are looking for is common/gestfich.cpp.  The
> >     function is OpenPDF().
> >
> >     >
> >     > Cheers
> >     > Fabrizio​
> >     >
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