[arch-general] whither man page for xorg.conf?

Grigorios Bouzakis grbzks at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 12:25:37 EST 2008


On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:17 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>
wrote:

> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> > Michael Schaefer wrote:
> >>> Anyone know where the man page for xorg.conf is located?  For some
> >>> reason, when I try "man xorg.conf" I get "No manual entry for
> >>> xorg.conf".
> >>
> >> /usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
> >
> >
> > Hmmm ....
> >
> > Yes, I see it there too, but I can't seem to get to it.  Any ideas why?
> >
> >
> >> but try "unset manpath"
> >
> > No joy!  :-(
> >
> > [darose at davidrlin ~]$ unset manpath
> > [darose at davidrlin ~]$ man xorg.conf
> > No manual entry for xorg.conf
> >
> >
> > DR
>
>
> Looks like my whole man setup is messed up:
>
> [darose at davidrlin ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/wget*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25906 2008-01-27 17:23
> /usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz
> [darose at davidrlin ~]$ man wget
> No manual entry for wget
> [darose at davidrlin ~]$ man -d wget
> Reading config file /etc/man.conf
> found man directory /usr/man
> found man directory /usr/share/man
> found man directory /usr/local/man
> found man directory /usr/local/share/man
> found man directory /usr/X11R6/man
> found manpath map /bin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /sbin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/bin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/sbin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/local/bin --> /usr/local/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/local/sbin --> /usr/local/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/X11R6/bin --> /usr/X11R6/man
> found manpath map /usr/bin/X11 --> /usr/X11R6/man
> found manpath map /usr/bin/mh --> /usr/share/man
>
> using /bin/less -is as pager
>
> using /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox as browser
>
> using /bin/cat to dump HTML pages as text
> adding /usr/man to manpath
> adding /opt/java/man to manpath
> adding /opt/java/jre/man to manpath
> adding /opt/qt/man to manpath
> No manual entry for wget
>
>
> Anyone know WTF?!?!?
>
> Tnx,
>
> DR
>
>
>
Repeat after me. I will start reading pacman output from now on...
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