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change default postscript viewer (and other apps too) in nautilus file manager

to change default postscript viewer (or many other apps in nautilus) go to

/home/jweisber/.local/share/applications and
open mimeapps.list with kate or another text editor.

Go to default applications category (in mine it is the bottommost of 3 categories) and change the postscript viewer to

application/postscript=kde4-okularApplication_fb.desktop. if you’d like to change it to okular

I find okular great for a number of reasons – it will print the name of displayed file on the banner, show thumbnails of multiple pages, and more.  Evince is another nice one.  The default was gv which is ok but . . .

(I stole that from the top list which gave about 5 options, presumably the ones that appear in the nautilus menu when you go to file>>open with

–Joel

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