How to make evince "Send To..." work with Thunderbird in Xubuntu LTS?
Hitting File > Send To ... evince is looking for a nautilus-sendto
executable. If not available the 'send to' command fails.
If you don't have or want or can install nautilus-sendto
you can setup an alternative script to send documents to Thunderbird. Run this command:
sudo nano /opt/evince-send-to-thunderbird
In the nano
text editor that appears in your terminal, add this text:
#!/bin/bash
thunderbird -compose "attachment='$1'"
Save the file and quit nano
. (If you press Ctrl+X you will have the opportunity to do both.) Then run these commands:
sudo chmod 775 /opt/evince-send-to-thunderbird
sudo ln -s /opt/evince-send-to-thunderbird /usr/bin/nautilus-sendto
After a restart of evince, the fake nautilus-sendto
script is found on the path and the 'send-to' command opens a Thunderbird Compose window with the current document as an attachment.