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greenjeans

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Basic GUI man page browser/viewer

Absolutely caveman simple GUI tool to search and view man pages. The top bar is for search and results appear in the main pane for choosing and opening, the bottom bar is for if you already know the name of the page and just want to open it. You can have multiple pages open, they are spawned by the main C+GTK window as separate instances of a yad text-info dialog, nice and readable. It uses apropos to search and only requires yad and gtk. Finished up some more tweaks today, now just need to test for a few days before posting it up on git and making a package. Tiny binary of 28k, only about 250 lines of code so it's nice and fast, and apropos does a nice job of searching.

EDIT: Up on git now and .deb package on sourceforge:

https://git.devuan.org/greenjeans/vuuman

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … ps/VuuMan/

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greenjeans

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Re: Basic GUI man page browser/viewer

Edited the OP with links, up on git now and also a .deb package on SF.

Sector11

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Registered: 2015-08-20

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Re: Basic GUI man page browser/viewer

Looks interesting.  And I saw that xz thing and went searching as it's something new to me.

So this is OFF TOPIC . but because of the xz seen in the example of the OP.

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew and all based on xz.

WAY above my paygrade but a very interesting and educational watch.

Also a side note to people that think and claim Windows is more popular than Linux, "watch it and weep!"

Edited the OP with links, up on git now and also a .deb package on SF.

Thank you!

I see Vuu-do on SF not VuuMan

EDIT:   OK  the SF link to VuuMan is in the GIT page.

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Sector11

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Registered: 2015-08-20

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Re: Basic GUI man page browser/viewer

Suggestion for a tweak:

Maybe limit the [search] bar to only search for programs with the entered value.

I punched in:

[co     ]

looking for conky, vuuman filled up with 16 entries to start with and 11 of them do not have "co" in the program name - I was looking for conky.

OOPS!  Reading what was there I had a brain far -errr- burp.

[command line          ]

HOT DAMN!!!!!!    Now this I LIKE!

Thank you greengeans, very nice!

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DeepDayze

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Re: Basic GUI man page browser/viewer

Tried out this neat app and me likey. Nice work, just like your AlsaTune and VuuPaper apps.

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