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* [gentoo-user] xterm man page has broken link to X
@ 2009-06-23  6:59 Kevin O'Gorman
  2009-06-23  7:43 ` Mike Kazantsev
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kevin O'Gorman @ 2009-06-23  6:59 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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?

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD



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* Re: [gentoo-user] xterm man page has broken link to X
  2009-06-23  6:59 [gentoo-user] xterm man page has broken link to X Kevin O'Gorman
@ 2009-06-23  7:43 ` Mike Kazantsev
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mike Kazantsev @ 2009-06-23  7:43 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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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.

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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