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On Saturday 18 Aug 2012 06:51:54 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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> On Sat 18 Aug 2012 06:21:55 AM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > In KDE, I'm very used to simply type "man:foo" and have the man page |
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> > of "foo" pop up immediately in Konqueror without having to open a |
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> > terminal or anything. |
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> > |
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> > However, since I installed Chromium and making it my default browser, |
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> > now "man:" brings up Chromium instead. That doesn't work; instead of |
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> > displaying the man page, it downloads the *.bz2 from the local file |
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> > system :-/ |
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> > |
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> > How can I set Konqueror to be the program that handles KDE's "man:" |
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> > command? |
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> Umm, my default browser is Firefox, but when I open Konqueror and type |
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> man:ls I get to see the man page. |
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> But if I launch using Alt+F2, it opens Firefox. |
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> I think this needs some xdg tweaking, using xdg-mime. I don't know the |
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> type of URL for man:, else could have posted the command. |
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The solution may be to find out the mime type of man pages, then create a |
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.desktop file to handle it and use xdg-settings to set it up. I am thinking |
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along the lines of: |
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[Desktop Entry] |
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# ... |
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Exec=/usr/bin/konqueror %U |
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MimeType=text/man_page_thing;text/bz2; |
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or similar. However, the problem is that man pages are not a distinct mime |
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type, but compressed text files. So this may cause konqueror to become the |
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default application for opening all such mime types - which will be a pain. |
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Not sure if a default application can be defined on a path basis, whereby only |
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text files in e.g. /usr/share/man/man1/* would be opened with Konqueror. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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