I was having problems with evince not being able to open certain PDF files by association. Worked fine if I opened it from the app, though.

A little figuring out, and running '/usr/bin/dbus-switchboard.py' in xterm revealed that a comma character (,) was causing it to choke. A lot of my PDF files have commas in them, so time to start hacking!

Turns out, the solution is very easy. Find the following text on line 19 of the aforementioned script. (If you don't know how to edit the script, read up on it in this thread.)

Basically, you need one of these lines for every non-alphanumeric character that you have in your filenames. "%20" is the hex url-encoded character, and " " (space) is the corresponding character.

Simply copy that line and paste it right below, then make the appropriate changes:

Keep it going for any other characters that are causing problems. That's it!

BTW, looks like there's no urldecode() function in Python like there is in PHP.


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