From: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xterm man page has broken link to X
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:43:00 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090623134300.1e122bfb@coercion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50906222359m5ad20c64i947c54d3206394a0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:59:14 -0700
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am exploring a few things about terminal programs, and am finding
> their man pages hard going. Just as an example, the xterm page
> coverage of -geometry points to the man page for X(7), but no such
> page exists on my system, and I can find no obvious package that might
> supply it.
>
> This raises the issue of how to find X docs.
>
> My intent is casual; I don't have time to become expert in it, so I'm
> hoping for fairly quick usage info.
>
> Does such exist?
On my system it indeed does and "man 7 X" is able to show it.
File is /usr/share/man/man7/X.7.bz2 (might be gz or lzma as well), if
it exists, then it's just man that can't find it, if it doesn't
then you probably need "app-doc/xorg-docs" package installed.
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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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