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.TH GMAN 1x "May 2002" "Gman"
.SH NAME
gman \- GTK+ based front-end for man, a good replacment for xman.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gman
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B 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
.B gman
launch another window with the manual page displayed in it.
.PP
.B 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.
.PP
It is simple, but it is useful.
.SH OPTIONS
There are no command line options for gman, for now.
.SH DISPLAY OPTIONS
Currently gman has 4 different modes to present the man pages, available as
the following items in the \fBView\fP menu:
.TP
.B xTerm
This will launch an X terminal emulator with the \fIman\fP output shown
inside.
.sp
You can add the following line to your ~/.gman file in order to select
the preferred X terminal emulator:
.sp
.RS 16
xterm_command = rxvt
.RE
.TP
.B GhostView
gman will present man pages in a GhostView window for you to view and print
the man page.
.sp
This requires GhostView (command "gv") to be available on your system.
.TP
.B Evince
gman will present man pages in an Evince window for you to view and print
the man page.
.sp
This requires GNOME Evince (command "evince") to be available on your system.
.TP
.B LocalBrowse
gman will launch a web browser window to show you the man page.
.sp
This requires man2html and web browser (command "sensible-browser") to be available on your
system.
.TP
.B 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.
.sp
This requires man2html, web browser (command "sensible-browser") and a HTTP server
running on localhost.
.SH FILES
.TP
.I ~/.gman
Contains configuration information for gman, such as window size and
paths where the manual pages are contained.
For example,
.sp
v_size = 400
.br
h_size = 300
.br
xterm_command = rxvt
.br
show_warning = 0
.br
man_paths = /usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man
.sp
For more information, see init_context() function in gman.c for all the
options avialiable.
.sp
~/.gman is read by gman on startup, and written on exit.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR man (1),
.BR man (7),
.BR xterm (1).
.SH AUTHOR
.B Gman
was written by a smart guy named Xinkai Wang <aakwxk@hotmail.com>.
.PP
Home page of gman is at:
.br
.UR
http://homex.coolconnect.com/user/xkwang/gman/
.UE
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