Gui based man page browser on your desktop.

[avj]

This is a short tutorial to set up a desktop shortcut/launcher to the xman program.  Xman is a gui based man page browser it comes already installed in Linux Lite, and makes it easy to view man pages.  If you don't know what a man page is look at the following link.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/man

All you need to do is copy the following code and paste it into a new text document, in the text editor.  After pasting click "save as" on the file menu of the text editor and save it to the desktop folder with a name followed by ".desktop" such as "xman.desktop" and then close the text editor. You next need to right click on the new icon and click the "Make file executable" from the menu.

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Xman
Comment=Xman Man page browser
Exec=xman -bothshown -notopbox
Icon=system-help
Path=
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Name[en_US]=ManPages
GenericName=Xman Man page browser

That's all there is to it.

[Valtam]

Good one avj

[banko]

Thanks avj.
only took about 2 minutes

Keith