How can I view man or info pages in the GNOME and KDE graphical environments?
by The editorial team
The GNOME and KDE desktop environments included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux have built-in functionality for viewing system documentation. In KDE, to get specific help on a command or configuration file type man: into the Konqueror location field, for example man:mkfs.ext3. Some commands like grep use the "info" system for their documentation. For these, enter info:.
In GNOME, locate the the Documenation Viewer by choosing from the menu System → Help. Enter the command name into the search field, then choose manual page from the results.
December 18th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I tried the GNOME tip on RHEL 5.0 and it doesn’t locate man pages just gives me results within the GNOME help system.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
OOPS, reading it more closely and I can now see the man pages. I read the KDE and GNOME directions and got them mixed up!
Thanks
December 21st, 2007 at 12:45 am
I believe, this does not work with yelp on RHEL4.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Thanks a lot – very helpful. Much nicer fonts to read in than a terminal windows, especially for long man or info page such as perl or bash.
works well with Suse also, and I suspect any other *nix running gnome or kde.
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
In KDE, you can also use #command or ##command for man or info pages respectively.
Ex:
#ls opens man page for ls.
##gcc opens info page for gcc