[gentoo-user] Re: How can I bring back Konqueror as my man page viewer?

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On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:10:01 +0300
Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@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.