Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:18:16 +0100 From: "Paul A. Mayer" <paul@fnug.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnome yelp and man pages Message-ID: <3E4BFD88.6010002@fnug.net> In-Reply-To: <1045167165.308.62.camel@gyros> References: <3E4BB56E.20300@fnug.net> <1045155770.308.25.camel@gyros> <3E4BE59B.2050305@fnug.net> <1045164292.308.47.camel@gyros> <3E4BFAB9.50906@fnug.net> <1045167165.308.62.camel@gyros>
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Hmmm. I'm stumpted. Bummer! Have to think about that ... Thanks, /Paul Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 15:06, Paul A. Mayer wrote: > >>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 >> >>??? > > > Don't know what to tell you: > > >>yelp --version > > Gnome yelp 2.2.0 > >>env | grep MANPATH > > MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/perl/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man > >>yelp > > (Warning: MANPATH environment variable set) > > And I see all my manpages. > > Joe > > >>/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
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