Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 08:05:18 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: man page readers Message-ID: <19980620080518.49679@welearn.com.au>
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I've finally got KDE running OK after rebuilding the kernel, still not
sure if I like it, but it does have a few handy things....
If you go into Help (help? click on the help icon.... the pretty little
picture of a book, of course... no, that green thing... yes.. OK, it's
green with a yellow thing on it... no, it looks like a key but it won't
lock the screen... the green part is a book because it's rectangular, so
you know it's gotta be help... no, don't type help, just click on it...
well try the other mouse button... no! once is enough!... ok, good, now
kill those extra help windows...) about the fifth item listed is "System
man page contents". Well, from there you can read man pages and when they
refer to other man pages you get a real link to the other page. This
might sound like no big deal, but when all of the other man pages
mentioned are meaningless words, being able to have a quick peek and
press the back button to return saves a lot of stress.
The old way was remember how to spell it, quit, bring up the other man
page, quit, get into the first man page again, memorise another name...
After following a few of these and finding that none of the mentioned
man pages have anything to do with the original problem either, it gets
pretty frustrating.
OK, maybe I'm not so keen on KDE as an environment, but it makes a great
man page reader :-)
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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