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

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 12 February 2006 15:37, Werner Joss wrote:
> 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
>
Thanks, Werner.  I've added it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, so that should do the 
trick.

Anne
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