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I have a: fresh installation of Linux mint 20 cinnamon a week ago (luv it)
and i have 3d ays ago installed okular for pdfs.

My Problem: when i want to open a file, that is unknown to the system with open with...
then i get the weird behavior of many okular's to choose from. Please see picture below: Many Okulars popping up

I installed okular from the standard 'Software Manager' it is version 4:19.12.3-2ubuntu1. Found out it is a KDE Graphic Module. And I looked up odd behavior of open with...

My question: How can I only show one okular in the choose Program tray of open with... ?

I want:

Okular to appear only once in the "Open with..."- list.

I think the okular options are getting more (kind of funny).
Thanks in advance

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  • is the question understandable? Commented Dec 19, 2020 at 8:12
  • i still did not figure out, why this happens... Commented May 11, 2021 at 9:40
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    same problem here, on arch linux. Does anyone know where it generates the "Open With..." list from? Commented Apr 29, 2022 at 19:05
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    please upvote the question, it was down voted for not beeing understandable. I dont know the reason and it only happens with okular. so i guess it is something okular specific? I have to add i havent tried for a long time, but now it works under linux mint: 5.4.0-104-generic #118-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 2 19:02:41 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux okular version 21.12.1 maybe it is fixed? Commented May 3, 2022 at 19:51
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    yes good point. I've now upvoted the question. So I still haven't solved this, but I think it is something to do with the myriad of okular desktop files in /usr/share/applications. Inspecting those files, they each appear to handle a different MIME type, so it's unclear why okular is appearing lots of times. But after moving all of these files out of that directory, leaving only okularApplication_pdf.desktop I can confirm okular now only appears once in the 'Open With' list (oddly, it doesn't seem to matter that I'm not even trying to open a PDF). Commented May 4, 2022 at 20:18

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