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In nautilus when I try to open a pdf with Adobe Reader, I cannot find Adobe Reader in open with.... In dolphin there's not such problem.

How can I add Adobe Reader Link to "Open With..." list in nautilus?

I use nautilus in KDE environment.

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    See also: http://askubuntu.com/questions/13758/how-can-i-edit-create-new-launcher-items-in-unity-by-hand/68023#68023 – Wilf Jun 07 '15 at 09:43

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the installed program have a .desktop that have to be edited to be listed in nautilus's "open with list"
to do that,you first have to locate that file 

ls /usr/share/applications/`

you should be able to guess the .desktop associated with your program.
let's say i want to add vlc to the list, i edit the desktop file with 

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop

and change Exec=vlc to Exec=vlc %u

in your case you edit: 

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/AdobeReader.desktop

and change Exec=AdobeReader to Exec=AdobeReader %u

Wilf
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  • Just a note %u and %U behave differently in case of multiple file selection... from Nautilus actions documentation:
    "singular" one, e.g. "%b", the basename of the selected item,

    "plural" one, e.g. "%B", a space-separated list of the basenames of selected items

     – Andrea Vacondio Aug 22 '16 at 15:14
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Use mimeopen to select the default option. The application will be available in Nautilus also.

From man mimeopen

-d, --ask-default
       Let the user choose a new default program for given files.

Just run in terminal 

 mimeopen -d file.pdf

and choose your option. It will be default from Nautilus also.

Example:

souravc@vworkstation:~/Downloads$ mimeopen -d asgmnt.pdf 
Please choose a default application for files of type application/pdf

1) Document Viewer  (evince)
2) Adobe Reader 9  (AdobeReader)
3) Other...

use application #2
Opening "asgmnt.pdf" with Adobe Reader 9  (application/pdf)
sourav c.
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