From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 19 16:44:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01659 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01640 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:44:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaput@whoever.com) Received: from whoever.com (kaput@pm04-14.aei.ca [206.123.6.189]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA03208; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:44:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <358AF77A.E89B1FE2@whoever.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:42:50 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake CC: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: happy man page readers References: <19980620080518.49679@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake wrote: > > 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*- > Hehehe ;-) I'm happy than you try this Windows Manager Now I'm a little bit like you, I dont use Xfree86. I think it's more simple and speedy in text based now :-) (with moused, of course =) And I love lynx. Happy Malartre -- -------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD-2.2.6 -------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message