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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>]

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").