Why does xdg-open use Mendeley as default for PDFs?

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Similar to this question, I have some applications (Calibre, texdoc) open PDFs with Mendeley. Opening PDFs from Thunar, Thunderbird, Firefox etc. opens evince, the expected default.



It seems that those applications use xdg-open since:



$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
mendeleydesktop.desktop


I tried to find where this comes from but was unsuccessful; I fixed it with



xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf


The question remains: where did xdg-open get the idea that Mendeley should be the default PDF viewer from?



I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with i3 4.11. xdg-open is at version 1.1.0 rc3.







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    Similar to this question, I have some applications (Calibre, texdoc) open PDFs with Mendeley. Opening PDFs from Thunar, Thunderbird, Firefox etc. opens evince, the expected default.



    It seems that those applications use xdg-open since:



    $ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
    mendeleydesktop.desktop


    I tried to find where this comes from but was unsuccessful; I fixed it with



    xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf


    The question remains: where did xdg-open get the idea that Mendeley should be the default PDF viewer from?



    I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with i3 4.11. xdg-open is at version 1.1.0 rc3.







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      Similar to this question, I have some applications (Calibre, texdoc) open PDFs with Mendeley. Opening PDFs from Thunar, Thunderbird, Firefox etc. opens evince, the expected default.



      It seems that those applications use xdg-open since:



      $ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
      mendeleydesktop.desktop


      I tried to find where this comes from but was unsuccessful; I fixed it with



      xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf


      The question remains: where did xdg-open get the idea that Mendeley should be the default PDF viewer from?



      I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with i3 4.11. xdg-open is at version 1.1.0 rc3.







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      Similar to this question, I have some applications (Calibre, texdoc) open PDFs with Mendeley. Opening PDFs from Thunar, Thunderbird, Firefox etc. opens evince, the expected default.



      It seems that those applications use xdg-open since:



      $ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
      mendeleydesktop.desktop


      I tried to find where this comes from but was unsuccessful; I fixed it with



      xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf


      The question remains: where did xdg-open get the idea that Mendeley should be the default PDF viewer from?



      I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with i3 4.11. xdg-open is at version 1.1.0 rc3.









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