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.TH GMAN 1x "May 2002" "Gman"
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gman \- GTK+ based front-end for man, a good replacment for xman.
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is a front-end for the manual page system. gman builds a database of all the
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available man pages and displays them in a list. Clicking on an entry in the
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launch another window with the manual page displayed in it.
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can launch more than one window at same time. The user can use
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the index/key word search function to look for the man pages that they need.
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It is simple, but it is useful.
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There are no command line options for gman, for now.
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Currently gman has 4 different modes to present the man pages, available as
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the following items in the \fBView\fP menu:
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This will launch an X terminal emulator with the \fIman\fP output shown
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You can add the following line to your ~/.gman file in order to select
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the preferred X terminal emulator:
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gman will present man pages in a GhostView window for you to view and print
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This requires GhostView (command "gv") to be available on your system.
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gman will present man pages in an Evince window for you to view and print
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This requires GNOME Evince (command "evince") to be available on your system.
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gman will launch a web browser window to show you the man page.
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This requires man2html and web browser (command "sensible-browser") to be available on your
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In this mode, you can view the pages with web browser and navigate from
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one man page to another by clicking the links in the man pages.
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This requires man2html, web browser (command "sensible-browser") and a HTTP server
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Contains configuration information for gman, such as window size and
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paths where the manual pages are contained.
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man_paths = /usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man
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For more information, see init_context() function in gman.c for all the
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~/.gman is read by gman on startup, and written on exit.
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was written by a smart guy named Xinkai Wang <aakwxk@hotmail.com>.
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Home page of gman is at:
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http://homex.coolconnect.com/user/xkwang/gman/