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 original man page system. The most basic job of gman is to build a database for all the man pages and display them (or part of them) as a list. When user decides to read a specific man page, gman will launch a xterm window and call the traditional man system to display the man page in the window.

Gman can launch more than one xterm window at same time. And user can use the index/key word search function to look for the man pages that he needs. The key word search is in fact a front-end for apropos.

It is simple, but it is useful.

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

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 Xinkai Wang <aakwxk@hotmail.com>. Home page of gman is at:
http://homex.s-one.net.sg/user/xkwang/gman