Re: man is using gxditview
in ~/.bashrc add the following line
export PAGER=less
when man is invoked it checks the value of PAGER to determine which
pager to use. i'm not familiar with gxditview, if this is giving you
problems and you really don't need this program, get rid of it.
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:27:23AM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
> > try setting the environmental variable PAGER to less or set MANOPT to
> > -P less. read man man
>
> Thanks Patrick
>
> Can you tell me the verbatim commands to do the above? And do I do this as
> user?
>
> As root, I have no problems with man in console mode, but as user, this
> is the message I get:
> Error: Can't open display:
> man: command exited with status 256: /usr/bin/zsoelim
> '/tmp/zmanLTXGSK' | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -TX100
>
> In X, gxditview just comes up empty. Then, when I exit gxditview, I
> get this:
> man: command exited with status 256: /usr/bin/zsoelim
> '/tmp/zmanLTXGSK' | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -TX100
>
> PS: This is a low priority problem, as info <subject> works, but is
> there an underlying problem with my system?
>
> John
>
>
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:21:23AM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote:
> > > When I use man as user, it is starting up gxditview, & in console mode
> > > this is not nice.
> > >
> > > I noticed this behavior a couple of weeks ago, but as yet haven't
> > > found how to change it back to using less.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > John
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"As a general rule, if you have trouble
with the binary system, then probably it
is because you do not really understand
the decimal system ..."
R.W. Hamming
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