NAME¶
gman - GTK+ based front-end for man, a good replacment for xman.
SYNOPSIS¶
gman
DESCRIPTION¶
Gman is a front-end for the manual page system. gman builds a database of
all the available man pages and displays them in a list. Clicking on an entry
in the list makes
gman launch another window with the manual page
displayed in it.
Gman can launch more than one window at same time. The user can use the
index/key word search function to look for the man pages that they need.
It is simple, but it is useful.
OPTIONS¶
There are no command line options for gman, for now.
DISPLAY OPTIONS¶
Currently gman has 4 different modes to present the man pages, available as the
following items in the
View menu:
- xTerm
- This will launch an X terminal emulator with the man output shown
inside.
You can add the following line to your ~/.gman file in order to select the
preferred X terminal emulator:
xterm_command = rxvt
- GhostView
- gman will present man pages in a GhostView window for you to view and
print the man page.
This requires GhostView (command "gv") to be available on your
system.
- Evince
- gman will present man pages in an Evince window for you to view and print
the man page.
This requires GNOME Evince (command "evince") to be available on
your system.
- LocalBrowse
- gman will launch a web browser window to show you the man page.
This requires man2html and web browser (command
"sensible-browser") to be available on your system.
- NetBrowse
- In this mode, you can view the pages with web browser and navigate from
one man page to another by clicking the links in the man pages.
This requires man2html, web browser (command "sensible-browser")
and a HTTP server running on localhost.
FILES¶
- ~/.gman
- Contains configuration information for gman, such as window size and paths
where the manual pages are contained. For example,
v_size = 400
h_size = 300
xterm_command = rxvt
show_warning = 0
man_paths = /usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man
For more information, see init_context() function in gman.c for all the
options avialiable.
~/.gman is read by gman on startup, and written on exit.
SEE ALSO¶
man(1),
man(7),
xterm(1).
AUTHOR¶
Gman was written by a smart guy named Xinkai Wang
<aakwxk@hotmail.com>.
Home page of gman is at:
http://homex.coolconnect.com/user/xkwang/gman/