On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > xman doesn't list X man pages. Yet, /etc/man.config seems to imply that > /usr/X11R6/bin is in the MANPATH, but running 'set' shows that this is > not the case. Does man.config get read only by man, not xman? Does > xman look only at the MANPATH environment variable?
According to the xman man page, that is the case. > If xman only looks at the MANPATH environment variable, then do we need > to add /usr/X11R6/man to MANPATH via a script in /etc/profile.d? I > manually added /usr/X11R6/man to the MANPATH and got xman to start > showing the X man pages, which leads me to believe that this would be > the correct solution. > > Thanks in advance for any feedback, > Harold Exactly. Preferably, this script should be added in the package that contains the X manpages (XFree86-man, I believe). Or you can reuse the 00xfree.sh that's already there (from the XFree86-bin package, I think). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton