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greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

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Basic GUI man-page browser/viewer

Absolutely caveman simple GUI tool to search and view man pages. The top bar is for search and results appear in the main pane for choosing and opening, the bottom bar is for if you already know the name of the page and just want to open it. You can have multiple pages open, they are spawned by the main C+GTK window as separate instances of a yad text-info dialog, nice and readable. It uses apropos to search and only requires yad and gtk. Finished up some more tweaks today, now just need to test for a few days before posting it up on git and making a package. Tiny binary of 28k, only about 250 lines of code so it's nice and fast, and apropos does a nice job of searching.

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EDIT: Up on git now and .deb package on sourceforge:

https://git.devuan.org/greenjeans/vuuman

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … ps/VuuMan/

Last edited by greenjeans (Today 16:09:11)

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Andre4freedom

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Re: Basic GUI man-page browser/viewer

Cool, bravo, that looks great!
Chapeau, Monsieur Greenjeans!

swanson

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Re: Basic GUI man-page browser/viewer

You're the man!

greenjeans

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Re: Basic GUI man-page browser/viewer

Thanks guys!!! I edited the original post with links to the git for source, and .deb package on Sourceforge.

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fanderal

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Registered: 2017-01-14

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Re: Basic GUI man-page browser/viewer

Fine idea, greenjeans! Looks real good and will definitely check it out.

In the example of xz, the man page shows all 6 apps included in the xz-utils pkg. In the alsa-utils pkg, 20 apps are included but not all are shown on any alsa man page, and only 11 apps are listed in the alsa-utils repo page.

However, all the apps are shown in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/alsa-utils.list file. I've occasionally checked a 'pkg-name.list' file to see the actual cmd to start an app, and other apps in a pkg. Don't know how many use those info files, just wondering if they're worth a link.