Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:42:50 -0400 From: Malartre <kaput@whoever.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: happy man page readers Message-ID: <358AF77A.E89B1FE2@whoever.com> References: <19980620080518.49679@welearn.com.au>
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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
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