[kde-linux] Man pages in Konqueror - not fixed after all!

[Werner Joss]

Am Sonntag, 12. Februar 2006 15:51 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> On Saturday 11 February 2006 08:24, Werner Joss wrote:
> > > export MANPATH /usr/share/doc/man
> >
> > shouldn't this be
> > export MANPATH=/usr/share/doc/man ?
>
> Although that appeared to fix things when on the test bench, after I
> powered down to move the box into place it no longer works.  I can set
> $MANPATH this way and echo it, but konqueror says that it must be set
> *before* starting kde, and every time I re-start the session it is lost. 
> What has gone wrong? 

Anne,
you need to set $MANPATH in a system-wide startup file, such as /etc/profile,
which is sourced upon system startup and hence provides settings to all user's 
environments.
alternative is /etc/man.conf (at least here, gentoo linux).

werner