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kaiwan
August 20th, 2008, 04:35 PM
Is there any gnome program for viewing info and man pages ?
Besides terminal, vim, and emacs ?

Potatoj316
August 20th, 2008, 06:12 PM
well its not a gnome program but theres this little nifty program called man that can view them for you :) (i know thats not what you wanted)

if you can view them with emacs and vim then you should be able to open them with gedit, but i dont really know whats so bad about using man to view them

cmay
August 20th, 2008, 06:16 PM
yes there is a program called man wiewer in the repo.
i found it last night.so i can really give any jugdement on it yet.
hope it helps

kaiwan
August 20th, 2008, 06:21 PM
well its not a gnome program but theres this little nifty program called man that can view them for you :) (i know thats not what you wanted)

if you can view them with emacs and vim then you should be able to open them with gedit, but i dont really know whats so bad about using man to view them
I would like some program with GUI, which I woud run from menu..like some pdf reader...
nothing is wrong with man prog, I was just wondering in there in another one

spupy
August 20th, 2008, 10:56 PM
I would like some program with GUI, which I woud run from menu..like some pdf reader...
nothing is wrong with man prog, I was just wondering in there in another one

Xman.
But the GUI is a bit ugly. Press Ctrl+S to search for a man page.

JBA2337
January 11th, 2009, 06:19 PM
Go to Synaptic Package Manager and install Tkman, a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser.

JBA2337

Mazin
January 11th, 2009, 10:21 PM
Konqueror formats manpages nicely for display with the man:/ protocol.

mcduck
January 11th, 2009, 10:27 PM
Gnome's own help viewer (Yelp) can also display manual and info pages.

adamlau
January 12th, 2009, 03:56 AM
man command > ~/Desktop/command

I prefer to view man and info references in a text editor :p .