From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 12: 6:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2735737B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:06:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from disk.fnug.net (213.237.71.107.adsl.amb.worldonline.dk [213.237.71.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1579C43FAF for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:06:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@fnug.net) Received: from fnug.net (unknown [192.168.0.3]) by disk.fnug.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40064497; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:06:17 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E4BFAB9.50906@fnug.net> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:06:17 +0100 From: "Paul A. Mayer" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030203 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, da MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: gnome yelp and man pages References: <3E4BB56E.20300@fnug.net> <1045155770.308.25.camel@gyros> <3E4BE59B.2050305@fnug.net> <1045164292.308.47.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <1045164292.308.47.camel@gyros> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Joe, That doesn't seemed to have helped .... bashrc: export \ MANPATH="/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/man" set | grep MANPATH MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/man ??? /Paul Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:36, Paul A. Mayer wrote: > >>Hi Joe, >> >>Thanks for the message. >> >>I've been running X from startx, so I gues that's why I don't have an >>~/.xsession-errors. But, taking a cue from your message, I tried >>running yelp from the commandline (to see errors if there were any, and >>lo' and behold it works -- except for, and this was probably the real >>problem anyway, pages added from ports, i.e. in /usr/local. Is there an >>easy way to teach yelp about /usr/local and other unusual places, if >>that, indeed is the problem? > > > Set your MANPATH variable. Yelp is able to find all my manpages just > fine. > > Joe > > >>/Paul >> >>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:10, Paul A. Mayer wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Does anyone know how to get gnome2 yelp to actually find the content of >>>>system man pages? The yelp index lists (a subset of the) man page >>>>titles but is not able to show their content for some reason. >>> >>> >>>Works fine for me. Do you have any messages in your ~/.xsession-errors >>>file? >>> >>>Joe >>> >>> >>> >>>>Thanks for the help! >>>> >>>>/Paul >>>> >>>>(PS, this post after scrounging around on the gnome projects support >>>>resources ... to no avail.) >>>> >>>> >>>>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>>>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message