Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!bonnie.heep!not-for-mail
From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XMan and the directories it searches
Date: 10 Jul 1995 10:28:45 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <3tqobt$c6a@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
References: <DBFGpu.6Ir@ecf.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
FICNAR FRANK G <ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu> wrote:
>... Now, the only
>way I know to get Xman to search ALL the man directories I have on my system
>is to set the MANPATH variable so that it points to all man directories.
>However, I like to start Xman from my window manager through a desktop menu
>and I don't know how to set the MANPATH variable for that particular session.
PopUp "foo"
Title "Sample Popup"
Exec "Xman" exec env MANPATH=`manpath` xman &
EndPopUp
(In fvwm notation.)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)