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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:59:14 -0700 |
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"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I am exploring a few things about terminal programs, and am finding |
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> their man pages hard going. Just as an example, the xterm page |
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> coverage of -geometry points to the man page for X(7), but no such |
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> page exists on my system, and I can find no obvious package that might |
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> supply it. |
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> This raises the issue of how to find X docs. |
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> My intent is casual; I don't have time to become expert in it, so I'm |
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> hoping for fairly quick usage info. |
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> Does such exist? |
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On my system it indeed does and "man 7 X" is able to show it. |
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File is /usr/share/man/man7/X.7.bz2 (might be gz or lzma as well), if |
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it exists, then it's just man that can't find it, if it doesn't |
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then you probably need "app-doc/xorg-docs" package installed. |
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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net |
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