Date: 13 Feb 2003 15:12:46 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Paul A. Mayer" <paul@fnug.net> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnome yelp and man pages Message-ID: <1045167165.308.62.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <3E4BFAB9.50906@fnug.net> References: <3E4BB56E.20300@fnug.net> <1045155770.308.25.camel@gyros> <3E4BE59B.2050305@fnug.net> <1045164292.308.47.camel@gyros> <3E4BFAB9.50906@fnug.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 15:06, Paul A. Mayer wrote: > Hi Joe, > > That doesn't seemed to have helped .... > > bashrc: > export \ > MANPATH="/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/man" > > set | grep MANPATH > MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/man > > ??? Don't know what to tell you: > yelp --version Gnome yelp 2.2.0 > env | grep MANPATH MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/perl/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man > yelp (Warning: MANPATH environment variable set) And I see all my manpages. Joe > > /Paul > > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:36, Paul A. Mayer wrote: > > > >>Hi Joe, > >> > >>Thanks for the message. > >> > >>I've been running X from startx, so I gues that's why I don't have an > >>~/.xsession-errors. But, taking a cue from your message, I tried > >>running yelp from the commandline (to see errors if there were any, and > >>lo' and behold it works -- except for, and this was probably the real > >>problem anyway, pages added from ports, i.e. in /usr/local. Is there an > >>easy way to teach yelp about /usr/local and other unusual places, if > >>that, indeed is the problem? > > > > > > Set your MANPATH variable. Yelp is able to find all my manpages just > > fine. > > > > Joe > > > > > >>/Paul > >> > >>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:10, Paul A. Mayer wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Does anyone know how to get gnome2 yelp to actually find the content of > >>>>system man pages? The yelp index lists (a subset of the) man page > >>>>titles but is not able to show their content for some reason. > >>> > >>> > >>>Works fine for me. Do you have any messages in your ~/.xsession-errors > >>>file? > >>> > >>>Joe > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Thanks for the help! > >>>> > >>>>/Paul > >>>> > >>>>(PS, this post after scrounging around on the gnome projects support > >>>>resources ... to no avail.) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >>>>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+S/w9b2iPiv4Uz4cRAlQsAJsGOKvjSacrNNtpIVDMKw6U58ybDgCggQp2 hs0KjXh+VhUUGXJNRolZj2A= =ekzM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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