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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
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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. ;-)