Funny action on "opening" a pdf document

[Piotr Ozarowski]

[Theodore Kilgore, 2013-01-18]
> "xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application" 
> explicitly mentioning "a file or a url" and then it says 
> "If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred 
> application for files of that type." These words would indicate that it is 
> going to open a file by doing something to the file, not by doing the 
> extraneous act of starting a web browser. 

do you have something like:

application/pdf;        xpdf '%s';      prioryty=1;     test=test -n "$DISPLAY"

in ~/.mailcap or /etc/mailcap? If not, can you add it to ~/.mailcap and check
xdg-open again?

You can also add to ~/.mime.types:

application/pdf		pdf

if /etc/mime.types doesn't have it.
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