Public bug reported: Per the KDE docs at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/konqueror/man-info.html, https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kdenetwork/kioslave5/man/index.html and https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kdenetwork/kioslave5/info/index.html, I should be able to read GNU-Linux man and info pages from within Konqueror. Unfortunately, that feature no longer works in Kubuntu 18.04 (it has worked through 16.04).
If I enter man:/<command> or info:<command> in Konqueror, I only get a blank page while the little icon to the right of the search field in the toolbar spins endlessly. Since the KDE docs say I should be able to open those pages in Kwrite, I decided to give it a try. I clicked the "open" button and entered man:/ls in the "name" field of the subsequent window. It did, indeed open the ls(1) man page, but it appeared as raw html. As I read https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kdenetwork/kioslave5/man/index.html, that is the expected behavior although it does make it much less readable than viewing in Konqueror where the html/css formatting is applied to look more like a real manpage. Curiously, the man kio-slave starts to work in Konqueror. If I enter man: in the address field of the Konqueror toolbar, it show manpage sections from man(0) through man(9) to man(l) (lower case L,, not a 1), including sections for POSIX variations. If I enter man:/(1)/, it shows all of the manpages in section one, albeit in an order which is definitely NOT alphabetical. Unfortunately, selecting one of those choices results in the blank page and a spinning icon. While reading man and ifo pages from within Konqueror is only one of the reasons I prefer the KDE desktop, it one of the more important reasons for me. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 $ apt-cache policy konqueror konqueror: Installed: 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status If you need more info, please let me know. Thank you, ron , , ** Affects: konqueror (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: 18.04 konqueror kubuntu manpage ** Package changed: khelpcenter (Ubuntu) => konqueror (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1800952 Title: Kubuntu 18.04: Konqueror won't show man/info pages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/konqueror/+bug/1800952/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs