On Saturday 31 October 2009 16:43:06 James Tyrer wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I have been in the habit of reading man pages in konqueror when I need > > to study them, as the formatting makes it easier on the eye. I haven't > > been able to since we moved to KDE4. Is this something still missing > > from the konq-extras, or do I have something wrong? > > > > Typing 'man:yum' > > Doesn't that need a "/". Well, actually, it seems to work without it. > > tells me that it can't find any man page for yum, yet > > > using the cli it works perfectly. > > Where are you using the command line? In Konsole or in a VT? > In Konsole > Obviously, you can't read man pages in Dolphin because it isn't a > browser. If you try to open a man page pseudo-URL in Dolphin, it will > be opened in Konqueror. > Why? They share so much of the same code. I understand that it does work, too. Here it gives exactly the same message as I get if I try it in konqueror. > I presume that you are opening the man pages in Konsole and that works. > This is strange. :-| However, it must have something to do with how > the environment variable: "MANPATH" is set -- the MANPATHs set in > "/etc/man.config" are not going to be changed. > Yes, it is a Fedora bug. A report has been raised, so presumably it will get fixed pretty soon - KDE-Fedora folk are good about that. > You can add the needed MANPATH to "/etc/man.config" and it should fix > the problem. > The bug report is about F12, but I run the testing and unstable repos, so it's almost certainly the same. I think I'll need to wait for the fix. The report is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532071 Thanks for trying to help, though Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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