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

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

[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?

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

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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

[Mick]

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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.
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Regards,
Mick

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

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

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. 

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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

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.

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

[»Q«]

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.

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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 19/08/12 04:30, »Q« wrote:
> 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.

It only displays it here if there's no selection page (POSIX vs Linux 
version of the man page; for example, "man:longjmp").

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

[»Q«]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 04:48:19 +0300
Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19/08/12 04:30, »Q« wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It only displays it here if there's no selection page (POSIX vs Linux 
> version of the man page; for example, "man:longjmp").

Ah, I see what you mean.  It's the same here.