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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>]

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.