From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-pre3.asl i686) Description of problem: If you *inadvertantly* try xdvi on a file with extension'tex' it launches Netscape. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-15 tetex-1.0.7-15 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a file named 'something.tex' [contents don't matter apparently, try mv core core.tex] 2. xdvi something.tex 3. Actual Results: msg: Could not open dvi file. Exiting. [That's OK, its not a dvi file ] Then Netscape opens with "couldn't find file 'something.tex' Expected Results: Just the error msg., please. Additional info: This is hilarious, but it had me questioning my sanity. Something in mime-types or mailcap, maybe? Same results under KDE/Gnome. If it's an enhancement to xdvi, please un-enhance. [I know: Doctor it hurts when I...Don't do that]
It's no enhancement. :-) Looks like a bug in the MIME handling, along with a couple of incorrect settings in the default texmf.cnf.
Created attachment 30694 [details] Here is a part of the solution. But xdvi tries a browser as a last resort for MIME types it doesn't know anyway.
I think this is (for some reason) intentional behaviour, judging from the code.