Man pages in dolphin or konqueror

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 16:43:06 James Tyrer wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I have been in the habit of reading man pages in konqueror when I need
> > to study them, as the formatting makes it easier on the eye. I haven't
> > been able to since we moved to KDE4. Is this something still missing
> > from the konq-extras, or do I have something wrong?
> >
> > Typing 'man:yum'
> 
> Doesn't that need a "/".  Well, actually, it seems to work without it.
> 
> tells me that it can't find any man page for yum, yet
> 
> > using the cli it works perfectly.
> 
> Where are you using the command line?  In Konsole or in a VT?
> 
In Konsole

> Obviously, you can't read man pages in Dolphin because it isn't a
> browser.  If you try to open a man page pseudo-URL in Dolphin, it will
> be opened in Konqueror.
> 
Why?  They share so much of the same code.  I understand that it does work, 
too.  Here it gives exactly the same message as I get if I try it in 
konqueror.

> I presume that you are opening the man pages in Konsole and that works.
>   This is strange. :-|  However, it must have something to do with how
> the environment variable: "MANPATH" is set -- the MANPATHs set in
> "/etc/man.config" are not going to be changed.
> 
Yes, it is a Fedora bug.  A report has been raised, so presumably it will get 
fixed pretty soon - KDE-Fedora folk are good about that.

> You can add the needed MANPATH to "/etc/man.config" and it should fix
> the problem.
> 
The bug report is about F12, but I run the testing and unstable repos, so it's 
almost certainly the same.  I think I'll need to wait for the fix.  The report 
is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532071

Thanks for trying to help, though

Anne
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