GMAN(1x)

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

SYNOPSIS
gman

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

Gman 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 gman, for now.

DISPLAY OPTIONS
Currently gman has 4 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 ~/.gman file in order to select the preferred X terminal emulator:

    xterm_command = rxvt

GhostView
    gman 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.

LocalBrowse
    gman will launch a Mozilla window to show you the man page.

    This requires man2html and Mozilla (command "mozilla") to be available on your system.

NetBrowse
    In this mode, you can view the pages with Mozilla and navigate from one man page to another by clicking the links in the man pages.

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

~/.gman
    Contains configuration information for gman, 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 gman.c for all the options avialiable.

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

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

AUTHOR
Gman was written by a smart guy named Xinkai Wang <aakwxk@hotmail.com>.

Home page of gman is at:
http://homex.coolconnect.com/user/xkwang/gman/