Funny action on "opening" a pdf document

[Piotr Ozarowski]

[Theodore Kilgore, 2013-01-19]
> OK. I can not do any more of this on the machine which is in the workplace 
> right now, but I tried it at home on my Raspberry Pi which was having the 
> same problem. It seems to fix the problem well enough.

great

> Some observations, both for you who apparently are connected with xdg-open 
> and for the MC people:

I'm just a xdg-open user

> 1. The RPI is a little machine, with minimal resources. It is not expected 
> to deal with mail, so there was no .mailcap file. No mail programs, not 
> even client programs, and so nothing related was installed, either. Hence, 
> the only way that was reasonable for creating a .mailcap file was to copy 
> one over there. For similar reasons, there was no /etc/mime.types, either, 
> and no .mime.types file in my user directory.

On Debian, it is provided by mime-support package which is "Priority:
standard" so you have to do some work to... not have this files
installed by default.
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