On Saturday 18 Aug 2012 06:51:54 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> On Sat 18 Aug 2012 06:21:55 AM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Umm, my default browser is Firefox, but when I open Konqueror and type
> man:ls I get to see the man page.
> But if I launch using Alt+F2, it opens Firefox.
> 
> I think this needs some xdg tweaking, using xdg-mime. I don't know the
> type of URL for man:, else could have posted the  command.

The solution may be to find out the mime type of man pages, then create a 
.desktop file to handle it and use xdg-settings to set it up.  I am thinking 
along the lines of:

 [Desktop Entry]
 # ... 
 Exec=/usr/bin/konqueror %U
 MimeType=text/man_page_thing;text/bz2;

or similar.  However, the problem is that man pages are not a distinct mime 
type, but compressed text files.  So this may cause konqueror to become the 
default application for opening all such mime types - which will be a pain.  
Not sure if a default application can be defined on a path basis, whereby only 
text files in e.g. /usr/share/man/man1/* would be opened with Konqueror.
-- 
Regards,
Mick