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Suggestion-Gui-Man page browser - avj - 02-19-2015
I think a Gui based man page browser would help a lot of former windows users get used to using linux.
It seems to be hard to find a man page for a particular function if you don't know the name to look for.
A browser that lists bash commands and installed man pages would be very helpful. At least in my opinion.
Re: Suggestion-Gui-Man page browser - Valtam - 02-19-2015
Could you draw us up an example of how you envisage this to look like? Cheers.
Re: Suggestion-Gui-Man page browser - avj - 02-19-2015
After some google searches the closest thing I could find was a xorg program called xman.
http://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/xman-command.jpeg
http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xman.1.html
Re: Suggestion-Gui-Man page browser - avj - 02-19-2015
To my surprise xman is already installed on my system from the package x11-apps.
Just another reason to like LL.
I guess I should have done the google searching first and then checked to see if it was installed.
Sorry for wasting your time, but maybe it will bring some attention to xman so others can find
what they are looking for.
Re: Suggestion-Gui-Man page browser - avj - 02-19-2015
I created a desktop application launcher for xman. Now all I have to do to see man pages is double click the icon. It pulls up a small app with three buttons: Help, Quit, and Manual Page. I click Manual Page, and I get a window with a list of man pages in the upper portion of the window. I can click items on the list and view them in the lower portion of the window.
The command I used for the launcher is: xman -bothshown
Adding a second command line argument: -notopbox will start the program without the small app with the three buttons.
Re: Suggestion-Gui-Man page browser - Valtam - 02-20-2015
Thanks for letting us know
Re: Suggestion-Gui-Man page browser - avj - 02-20-2015
No problem, I just hope it helps other LL users.