Where's the manpage for xterm? I have the documentation for X11 installed. $ rpm -qi xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 Name : xorg-x11-man Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 6.8.2 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 30 Build Date: Tue 22 Mar 2005 12:36:03 PM EST Install date: Fri 10 Jun 2005 11:03:56 PM EDT Build Host: nielsen.suse.de Group : Documentation/Man Source RPM: xorg-x11-6.8.2-30.src.rpm Size : 1892919 License: X11/MIT Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 22 Mar 2005 12:48:09 PM EST, Key ID a84edae89c800aca Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback URL : http://freedesktop.org/XOrg Summary : On-line manuals for X11 Description : The manual pages for programs that come with the X Window System\tm. ################################### There _IS_ a man page for xterm: http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/xterm.1.html -- Regards, Steven
* Steven T. Hatton <hattons@globalsymmetry.com> [08-30-05 08:29]:
Where's the manpage for xterm? I have the documentation for X11 installed.
$ rpm -qi xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 Name : xorg-x11-man Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 6.8.2 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products .... There _IS_ a man page for xterm:
rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep man -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 10:01, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Steven T. Hatton <hattons@globalsymmetry.com> [08-30-05 08:29]:
There _IS_ a man page for xterm:
rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep man
There are plenty of other man pages from X11. Try: rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm I should be able to type `man xterm' and get the xterm man page. It looks like this: XTERM(1) XTERM(1) NAME xterm - terminal emulator for X SYNOPSIS xterm [-toolkitoption ...] [-option ...] DESCRIPTION The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. ... Which is what I get from a login to a remote account I have on a Linux box. -- Regards, Steven
* Steven T. Hatton <hattons@globalsymmetry.com> [08-30-05 10:13]:
There are plenty of other man pages from X11.
Try:
rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm
I should be able to type `man xterm' and get the xterm man page. It looks like this:
I am aware of the looks of an xterm man page. the 'rpm -ql ...' will give you the location of the man pages you are not able to otherwise access. Then compare to your $MANPATH to see why you don't see them with the man invocation and make the necessary corrections, if necessary. linux does require thought, a _good_thing_ (TM) -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 11:29, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Steven T. Hatton <hattons@globalsymmetry.com> [08-30-05 10:13]:
There are plenty of other man pages from X11.
Try:
rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm
I should be able to type `man xterm' and get the xterm man page. It looks like this:
I am aware of the looks of an xterm man page.
the 'rpm -ql ...' will give you the location of the man pages you are not able to otherwise access. Then compare to your $MANPATH to see why you don't see them with the man invocation and make the necessary corrections, if necessary.
linux does require thought, a _good_thing_ (TM)
Think about this. THE FILE ISN'T IN THE RPM. $ typeset -f pathlist pathlist () { if [ "$#" = "0" ]; then echo "usage: pathlist <variable_name>"; return; fi; eval "echo -e \${$1//:/'\n':}" } $ pathlist MANPATH /home/hattons/man :/usr/share/man :/home/hattons/opt/org/xemacs/man :/home/hattons/opt/com/sun/jdk1.5.0_04/man :/usr/local/man :/usr/X11R6/man :/opt/gnome/share/man :/opt/gnome/man :/usr/man :/usr/X11R6/man :/usr/man :/usr/X11R6/man $ locate xterm.1x.gz However: zgrep man1/xterm /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES.gz ./CD1/suse/i586/xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-15.i586.rpm: -r--r--r-- 1 root root 39254 Oct 4 19:56 /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz $ rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm $ -- Regards, Steven
* Steven T. Hatton <hattons@globalsymmetry.com> [08-30-05 11:57]:
However:
zgrep man1/xterm /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES.gz ./CD1/suse/i586/xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-15.i586.rpm: -r--r--r-- 1 root root 39254 Oct 4 19:56 /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz
$ rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm $
guess you need to get xterm.1x.gz from xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-15.i586.rpm and put it at /usr/X11R6/man/man1/ since it is not in xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-30...., if you wish to use 'man xterm'. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2005-08-30 at 12:22 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
guess you need to get xterm.1x.gz from xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-15.i586.rpm and put it at /usr/X11R6/man/man1/ since it is not in xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-30...., if you wish to use 'man xterm'.
The xterm manpage is not included in SuSE 9.3. Except in japanese: ./DVD1/suse/noarch/xmanja-0.7-302.noarch.rpm: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56783 Mar 19 21:15 /usr/X11R6/man/ja/man1/xterm.1x.gz - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDFb/wtTMYHG2NR9URAkZvAJ9kd1ZNElpnlWqUUiX4KP0pcRkeSgCfS3ku K+ynVavN0Uox4Ph3+wsuzZU= =l7l+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
* Carlos E. R. <robin1.listas@tiscali.es> [08-31-05 13:02]:
The xterm manpage is not included in SuSE 9.3.
Except in japanese:
even thou its from 9.0, the man page files for xterm is available and should be the same: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/xterm.1x.gz I can also get 9.1 and 9.2 from the dvd's if the above is not satisfactory. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2005-08-31 at 16:23 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
even thou its from 9.0, the man page files for xterm is available and should be the same:
Yes, I know that the man page is available somewhere, I read it once ;-) But that doesn't alter the fact that SuSE neglected to include it in the distro. The file xterm.man is indeed included in the source, xterm-200-3.src.rpm, thus it is certainly a fault when creating the binary rpm. If somebody wants the man page, that's the file to get it from. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDFlbutTMYHG2NR9URApeKAJ9dWOjH3Iu15uvhceR0UDwbPTNOrgCgl6Ki J+rpcA6ewiB0KXCuupdOCLc= =nOxA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2005-08-30 at 12:22 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
guess you need to get xterm.1x.gz from xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-15.i586.rpm and put it at /usr/X11R6/man/man1/ since it is not in xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-30...., if you wish to use 'man xterm'.
The xterm manpage is not included in SuSE 9.3.
Except in japanese:
./DVD1/suse/noarch/xmanja-0.7-302.noarch.rpm: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56783 Mar 19 21:15 /usr/X11R6/man/ja/man1/xterm.1x.gz
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
I don't know what to make of this: /usr/share/doc/packages/xterm/README "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage. Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014 subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do. If you are porting this to a machine that has problems with overlapping bcopy's, watch out! There are two documents on xterm: the man page, xterm.man, which describes how to use it, and ctlseqs.ms, which describes the control sequences it understands." rpm -ql xterm-200-3 /usr/X11R6/bin/Backarrow2BackSpace /usr/X11R6/bin/Backarrow2Delete /usr/X11R6/bin/luitx /usr/X11R6/bin/resize /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.termcap /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.terminfo /usr/bin/xterm /usr/share/applications/xterm.desktop /usr/share/doc/packages/xterm /usr/share/doc/packages/xterm/README /usr/share/doc/packages/xterm/README.SuSE /usr/share/doc/packages/xterm/README.i18n /usr/share/pixmaps/terminal.png I will say that though xterm may be the ugliest program in the distribution, it is one of the most important. It's the only terminal emulation program I use on a regular basis. The problem with omitting the man page (which I assume was an oversight) is that other apps often refer to it for instructions on how to set x-resources. -- Regards, Steven
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 17:29, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Steven T. Hatton <hattons@globalsymmetry.com> [08-30-05 10:13]:
There are plenty of other man pages from X11.
Try:
rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm
I should be able to type `man xterm' and get the xterm man page. It looks like this:
I am aware of the looks of an xterm man page.
the 'rpm -ql ...' will give you the location of the man pages you are not able to otherwise access. Then compare to your $MANPATH to see why you don't see them with the man invocation and make the necessary corrections, if necessary.
As far as I can see, the only man page for xterm included in 9.3 is the japanese one, in the xmanja package, but that's probably not very useful.
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:10, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 17:29, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Steven T. Hatton <hattons@globalsymmetry.com> [08-30-05 10:13]:
There are plenty of other man pages from X11.
Try:
rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm
I should be able to type `man xterm' and get the xterm man page. It looks like this:
I am aware of the looks of an xterm man page.
the 'rpm -ql ...' will give you the location of the man pages you are not able to otherwise access. Then compare to your $MANPATH to see why you don't see them with the man invocation and make the necessary corrections, if necessary.
As far as I can see, the only man page for xterm included in 9.3 is the japanese one, in the xmanja package, but that's probably not very useful.
Unless you happen to read Japanese. Which I can't do. :( -- Regards, Steven
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