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I am unable to view PDF's in VIFM with Evince (my pdf viewer of choice). How does one do this?

jasonwryan
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George
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You need to configure vifm to open .pdf files with Evince. In your ~/.vifm/vifmrc add the following lines:

command evince evince *.{pdf} &
filetype *.pdf evince

The first defines a user command, the second sets the default program for specific filetypes.

The default vifmrc (that should be installed to /usr/share/vifm/vifmrc) is very well commented and should provide all the documentation you need to get it up and running. The Arch wiki also has a vifm page that contains some helpful pointers and tips.

jasonwryan
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  • I added this to my vifmrc and it didn't work. But I realized that no matter what I add to my vifmrc, the file is changed back to its default upon opening vifm. That is, if I edit the vifmrc, and then open vifm, and then look at my vifmrc, it's back to normal! What could be causing this? – George Oct 05 '14 at 12:47
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    @George, your version of Vifm is probably very old (might be 0.4 for Debian-based systems), there is more up to date version in experimental. You can as well build it from sources. The old version uses different syntax and updates vifmrc on exit. – xaizek Oct 05 '14 at 14:14
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I could do it by change my config file ~/.vifm/vifmrc like this:

filextype *.pdf xreader
fileviewer *.pdf xreader-previewer
Allan Santos
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