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I am currently working with the evince 3.10.3 document viewer on Xubuntu LTS 14.04. When I hit File > Send To..., I receive the following error message from evince:

Could not send current document
Failed to execute child process "(null)" (No such file or directory)

Nevertheless, I have Mozilla Thunderbird defined as the Mail Reader in Preferred Applications under Settings Manager.

What else should I configure?

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  • Yeah, I see the exact same behavior. Possibly a bug that should be reported on Launchpad.
    – landroni
    Dec 28, 2014 at 4:34
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    The problem could also stem from the fact that evince forms part of the GNOME3 suite, using GTK3 and ignoring other desktop default program settings. XFCE4 is still GTK2.
    – Serge Stroobandt
    Dec 28, 2014 at 11:19
  • Yup, that could well be it. I would actually suspect that Evince would ignore any non-Gnome3 settings, like freedesktop.org standards.
    – landroni
    Dec 28, 2014 at 12:44

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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.

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