firefox not using acroread

[Colin Law]

On 16 December 2012 20:47, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 16 December 2012 15:44:34 Colin Law did opine:
>
>> On 16 December 2012 20:06, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>> > On Sunday 16 December 2012 15:05:41 rikona did opine:
>> >> ...
>> >> In 10.04 I use 'Document Viewer' - works pretty well.
>> >
>> > But what does that alias to?  There is no such entry in
>> > /etc/alternatives.
>>
>> I believe it is evince.  It is not an alias, Document Viewer is the
>> name in the .desktop file.
>>
>> Colin
>
> No such file on this system:
> gene at coyote:~$ locate .desktop |grep "Document"
> /home/gene/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/linuxcnc_debug.txt.desktop
> /home/gene/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/linuxcnc_print.txt.desktop
> /home/gene/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/my-lathe.hal.desktop
> /home/gene/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/my-lathe.ini.desktop
> /home/gene/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/resolver.html.desktop
> /home/gene/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/scs.asp.desktop
> /home/gene/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/watch.desktop
>
> Next step?

Note that I said it is the name *in* the desktop file, not the name
*of* the desktop file.  Try
cat /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop
though since you are using Xubuntu it may not be there.  Anyway, as I
said, the program you want is evince, just try running it and if it is
not installed then
sudo apt-get install evince

Colin