Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:44:52 -0700 From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/85104: keyboard(4) manpage hides behind Xorg version Message-ID: <hmu0hmsqkb.0hm@mail.opusnet.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200508190050.j7J0oKqp099514@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 85104
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: keyboard(4) manpage hides behind Xorg version
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 19 00:50:20 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gary W. Swearingen
>Release: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
On systems with X11 installed, the FreeBSD keyboard(4) manpage can
be hidden by the X11 version:
$ man -w keyboard
/usr/X11R6/man/man4/keyboard.4x.gz
$ man -wa keyboard
/usr/X11R6/man/man4/keyboard.4x.gz
/usr/share/man/man4/keyboard.4.gz
It seems wrong to force users to use and to know to use:
man -M /usr/share/man keyboard
or have them fix up /etc/manpath.config and have the X11
version ignored instead.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Debatable. This could be considered a sysadmin's problem.
Both manpages seem out of place in section 4, so I suggest
moving moving FreeBSD's to section 7 and worry about all
of the misplaced X11 manpages in a different PR.
Unfortunately, references to keyboard(4) in these manpages would need
to change to keyboard(7):
kbdcontrol.1
vidcontrol.1
pcvt.4
screen.4
syscons.4
syscons.4
vt.4
sc.4
sc.4
kbdmap.5
keymap.5
moused.8
I'll write manpage patches if some change is agreed upon.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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