Hi,
a very strange behaviour since the last few months: When I send an email and attach a pdf, I like to open it once in order to make sure that it’s the contents that I want to send. However, since a few months ago (I can’t pinpoint the exact date), when I click on the pdf, Thunderbird will invoke Kate (a KDE text editor) in order to open the pdf. Needless to say that this doesn’t show the pdf, but the source of the pdf, which isn’t really helpful. I checked the settings, pdf is linked to Ocular, i.e. Thunderbird should open Ocular when clicking on a pdf. And that works also when I click on a pdf that is attached to a received E-Mail. But it doesn’t work when I click on a pdf that is attached to an E-Mail that I am about to send away.
You’ve posted this in the Third-party Applications category, so I’m assuming that this is not the thunderbird package from the repositories, then?
Sorry, somehow I thought “3rd party” means any package not done by Manjaro, but now I realise that wouldn’t make much sense (how do I know what is not done by Manjaro?). No, it’s the package provided by the “extra” repository.
No, Third-party Applications is for…
- software installed from the vendors’ own websites;
- software that was manually compiled from sources;
- software installed as an AppImage;
- software that you created yourself; and/or
- software for another operating system or platform — e.g. Windows software, games installed via Steam, et al.
That said, I don’t use thunderbird, but doesn’t it have a section somewhere for setting which external applications it invokes, or which files it associates with which applications?
Another place to look would be in the “File Associations” subsection of the “Default Applications” section in the Plasma System Settings.
In the box in the right-hand pane, click on “application” and type “pdf” in the search field. You will then see a list of applications coming up on the right. Make sure okular is the one listed at the top. If it’s not, select it, and move it to the top of the list with the Move up button on the right. Then click Apply.
Thank you for your reply. About the 3rd party thing I hope I don’t repeat the mistake (I have some memory issues unfortunately).
Burt regarding your suggestions: I have checked all of it, all point to okular, both within thunderbird as well as within the Manjaro system settings. That’s why it’s so weird.
There was a problem reported a while ago by some people where Thunderbird would incorrectly identify a PDF file as another file type (like HTML), and that may be your problem. Not sure what you can do about it, other than maybe experimenting with changing Thunderbird to use another app for opening (say) HTML files and see if that helps.
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Thanks a lot for pointing me to this. I could “repair” it by changing the app for “html”-docs to Okular, and now it works as expected!
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