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

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 12 February 2006 15:38, Christophe Gaubert wrote:
> Le 12/02/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> a écrit :
> > 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? BTW, I tried it both as user and root,
> > and in both cases it was lost on re-starting the session.
>
> Try, maybe, to put that line in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile if
> bash is your shell.
>
> Or, another solution : put a file containing that line
> in /etc/profile.d.

I've put it into /etc/rc.d/rc.local.  If that doesn't work I'll try out your 
suggestions.  Thanks

Anne