[csw-users] evince odesn't start when called by firefox

[Aaron Wilson]

Actually I kind of have seen this.

Years ago I created a shell script with the help of someone from this 
list so my users could open up pdf's in the native Solaris version of 
Evolution
I would get an error if I tried to open a pdf in evolution with 
/opt/csw/bin/evince

So we created a script that I put at /opt/csw/bin/evince.sh

The contents of that scritpt:


#!/bin/sh
unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
exec /opt/csw/bin/evince "$@"


I've had that set as the default pdf handler in both Evolution and 
Firefox for years now.

Recently I did update to Firefox 3.53 from 
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5.3/contrib/

Since upgrading my old evince.sh handler stopped working, so I tried 
just setting Firefox to use evince and now I can open pdfs again with 
Firefox.

Maybe you'd have luck with that evince.sh script?


--
Aaron


Nicolai Schwindt wrote:
>> hello all,
>> i'm using firefox-3.5.3 from sun contribs, on a solaris 10 sparc machine.
>> I've got this error:
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>> but it works with xpdf.
>>     
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> xpdf does not depend on pango - evince seems to.
> Firefox probably set an LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so evince finds the wrong pango lib.
>
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>> Anybody has seen it?
>>     
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> under /usr/local - not anymore since bsd.
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