On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 04:48:19 +0300
Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/08/12 04:30, »Q« wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:10:01 +0300
> > Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 18/08/12 17:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >>> Am Samstag, 18. August 2012, 03:51:55 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> >>>> In KDE, I'm very used to simply type "man:foo" and have the man
> >>>> page of "foo" pop up immediately in Konqueror without having to
> >>>> open a terminal or anything.
> >>>>
> >>>> However, since I installed Chromium and making it my default
> >>>> browser, now "man:" brings up Chromium instead. That doesn't
> >>>> work; instead of displaying the man page, it downloads the *.bz2
> >>>> from the local file system :-/
> >>>>
> >>>> How can I set Konqueror to be the program that handles KDE's
> >>>> "man:" command?
> >>>
> >>> open system-settings. Open mime/applications/whatever submenu
> >>> (called 'Dateizuordnungen' in German).
> >>>
> >>> application-xtroff-man
> >>> and
> >>> application-xtroff-man-compressed
> >>>
> >>> should be the things you have to set. Click on 'embedded' and
> >>> choose KManPart
> >>>
> >>> And that it is always shown in the embedded part.
> >>>
> >>> We are talking about KDE here - not gnome. It should not be
> >>> necessary to fiddle with desktop files.
> >>
> >> This is already set up that way. Except that
> >> x-troff-man-compressed is grayed out because there's no file
> >> extension listed.
> >
> > It's not greyed for me, and I just set both up that way, but KDE is
> > still opening man:foo with my default web browser, Firefox. KDE is
> > putting a decompressed copy in /var/tmp/kdecache-${username}/krun/
> > and Firefox displays it ok, but I'd much rather be seeing it in
> > Konqueror.
>
> It only displays it here if there's no selection page (POSIX vs Linux
> version of the man page; for example, "man:longjmp").
Ah, I see what you mean. It's the same here.
