I'd like to use Mozilla rather than Konqueror to view man pages, since Mozilla is my default browser. But if I attempt to view them in Mozilla I get the message "man is not a registered protocol". So how do I register a protocol such as "man"? Paul Abrahams
Paul, On Tuesday 05 October 2004 08:48, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I'd like to use Mozilla rather than Konqueror to view man pages, since Mozilla is my default browser. But if I attempt to view them in Mozilla I get the message "man is not a registered protocol". So how do I register a protocol such as "man"?
What version of Mozilla are you using? I was quite surprised to see what my version 1.7.3 Mozilla did when I entered the URL <man:bash>. Mozilla opened "yelp" on the BASH manual page. (I've also never seen "yelp" before--I had to use the "About..." menu command to find out the program's name!) But I assume that's not what you want. If you want to view manual pages within Mozilla, you'll need to find or implement a plug-in. I don't see a helper (Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator -> Helper Applications) configured for manual pages, so I gather that this is configured more deeply, somehow. Perhaps it's something included by virtue of this being a GTK2 build?
Paul Abrahams
Randall Schulz
On Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17.48, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I'd like to use Mozilla rather than Konqueror to view man pages, since Mozilla is my default browser. But if I attempt to view them in Mozilla I get the message "man is not a registered protocol". So how do I register a protocol such as "man"?
It seems to be controlled from the gnome control centre. Run gnome-control-center go to file associations, Internet Services and edit the entries for "man" and "info". Mine say gnome-help "%s" in the Program field
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 2:41 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17.48, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I'd like to use Mozilla rather than Konqueror to view man pages, since Mozilla is my default browser. But if I attempt to view them in Mozilla I get the message "man is not a registered protocol". So how do I register a protocol such as "man"?
It seems to be controlled from the gnome control centre. Run
gnome-control-center
go to file associations, Internet Services and edit the entries for "man" and "info". Mine say
gnome-help "%s"
in the Program field
Do you think that Mozilla subcontracts to gnome-control-center for such things? I found the reference to gnome-help and tried changing it to "man", but I still got the protocol message from Mozilla. I also tried specifing man/man and also application/man in the Mozilla helper applications, but neither produced a visible effect. Paul
On Wednesday, 6 October 2004 00.43, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 2:41 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17.48, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I'd like to use Mozilla rather than Konqueror to view man pages, since Mozilla is my default browser. But if I attempt to view them in Mozilla
I
get the message "man is not a registered protocol". So how do I register
a
protocol such as "man"?
It seems to be controlled from the gnome control centre. Run
gnome-control-center
go to file associations, Internet Services and edit the entries for "man"
and
"info". Mine say
gnome-help "%s"
in the Program field
Do you think that Mozilla subcontracts to gnome-control-center for such things?
It does, yes. The protocols mozilla doesn't know about, it hands over to "the platform" to handle, and in linux mozilla tries to integrate with gnome, so it hands it over to it.
I found the reference to gnome-help and tried changing it to "man"
No, it should be gnome-help "%s", you need to have the yelp package installed Are you running the suse rpm of mozilla?
Anders, On Tuesday 05 October 2004 15:56, Anders Johansson wrote:
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No, it should be gnome-help "%s", you need to have the yelp package installed
Can yelp display within the Mozilla window? On my system, with a Mozilla.org-supplied non-RPM, GTK2-based installation of Mozilla 1.7.3, I get yelp launched as a independent application with its own window.
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Randall Schulz
On Wednesday, 6 October 2004 01.34, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Anders,
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 15:56, Anders Johansson wrote:
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No, it should be gnome-help "%s", you need to have the yelp package installed
Can yelp display within the Mozilla window?
I don't think so. mozilla isn't that integrated into gnome. I think you'd stand a better chance with epiphany. But I haven't spent a great deal of time investigating
On my system, with a Mozilla.org-supplied non-RPM, GTK2-based installation of Mozilla 1.7.3,
same setup as me
I get yelp launched as a independent application with its own window.
Yep, me too, and it works the same in firefox (although there I get a nice warning that something external is about to be launched)
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