From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 19 15:05:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14855 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 15:05:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14825 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 15:05:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA29077; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 08:05:22 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980620080518.49679@welearn.com.au> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 08:05:18 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: man page readers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message