RTFM(1x)

NAME
rtfm - GTK+ based front-end for man, a good replacment for xman.

SYNOPSIS
rtfm

DESCRIPTION
RTFM is a front-end for the manual page system. rtfm builds a database of all the available man pages and displays them in a list. Clicking on an entry in the list makes rtfm launch another window with the manual page displayed in it.

RTFM can launch more than one window at same time. The user can use the index/key word search function to look for the man pages that they need.

It is simple, but it is useful.

OPTIONS
There are no command line options for rtfm, for now.

DISPLAY OPTIONS
Currently rtfm has 3 different modes to present the man pages, available as the following items in the View menu:

xTerm
    This will launch an X terminal emulator with the man output shown inside.

    You can add the following line to your ~/.rtfm file in order to select the preferred X terminal emulator:

    xterm_command = rxvt

GhostView
    rtfm will present man pages in a GhostView window for you to view and print the man page.

    This requires GhostView (command "gv") to be available on your system.

ManView
    In this mode, you can view the pages with the CoolMan manpage viewer, if available on your system.

    This requires man2html, Mozilla (command "mozilla") and a HTTP server running on localhost.

FILES

~/.rtfm
    Contains configuration information for rtfm, such as window size and paths where the manual pages are contained. For example,

    v_size = 400
    h_size = 300
    xterm_command = rxvt
    show_warning = 0
    man_paths = /usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man

    For more information, see init_context() function in rtfm.c for all the options avialiable.

    ~/.rtfm is read by rtfm on startup, and written on exit.

SEE ALSO
man(1), man(7), xterm(1).

AUTHOR
rtfm is based on code written by Xinkai Wang <aakwxk@hotmail.com> and Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>, with additional changes by Gilbert Ashley <amigo@ibiblio.org>.

Home page of rtfm is at:
http://amigolinux.org