Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1218 mails)

[george olson <grglsn765@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/01/2012 10:03 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 01/02/12 12:58, george olson wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am using thunderbird 9 on my office pc, opensuse 12.1 32 bit. I get 
> > attachments with emails, and in particular the pdf attachments are 
> > what are causing a problem.
> >
> > I want to open pdf attachments with okular, but when click to open 
> > the attachment, my only option is to open with GIMP. the dialog box 
> > does not allow me to choose another application besides GIMP, which 
> > is the default. How do I configure thunderbird so that I can choose 
> > the application to open, or else set pdf files to open with okular?
> >
> > Of course pdf files when opened from dolphin or anywhere else will 
> > open with okular.
> >
> > I was able to configure thunderbird on my home pc to open attachments 
> > with okular, but I can't remember how I did it. Now I am stuck, and 
> > searching the forums doesn't yield any help. The mimeedit extension 
> > for thunderbird seemed to work for some people before, but that 
> > extension has been removed from thunderbird options.
> >
> > George
> Edit/Preferences/Attachments/PDF --- select what you want done.
>
> BC
For some reason, Edit/Preferences/Attachments has absolutely nothing 
listed. There are no options for any kind of files. The table on that 
tab is blank in both columns, and there is no dialog button to add 
anything to the table.

G
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