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

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