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NAME

       xman - Manual page display program for the X Window System

SYNOPSIS

       xman [ -options ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       Xman  is  a  manual page browser.  The default size of the initial xman window is small so
       that you can leave it running throughout your entire login session.  In the initial window
       there  are three options: Help will pop up a window with on-line help, Quit will exit, and
       Manual Page will pop up a window with a manual page browser in it.  Typing Control-S  will
       pop  up  a  window  prompting for a specific manual page to display.  You may display more
       than one manual page browser window at a time from a single execution of xman.

       For further information on using xman, please read the on-line help information.  Most  of
       this manual will discuss customization of xman.

OPTIONS

       Xman  supports  all  standard  Toolkit  command  line arguments (see X(7)).  The following
       additional arguments are supported.

       -helpfile filename
              Specifies a helpfile to use other than the default.

       -bothshown
              Allows both the manual page and manual directory to be on the screen  at  the  same
              time.

       -notopbox
              Starts without the Top Menu with the three buttons in it.

       -geometry WxH+X+Y
              Sets the size and location of the Top Menu with the three buttons in it.

       -pagesize WxH+X+Y
              Sets the size and location of all the Manual Pages.

CUSTOMIZING XMAN

       Xman allows customization of both the directories to be searched for manual pages, and the
       name that each directory will  map  to  in  the  Sections  menu.   Xman  determines  which
       directories  it will search by reading the MANPATH environment variable.  If no MANPATH is
       found then the directory is /usr/man is searched on POSIX systems.   This  environment  is
       expected to be a colon-separated list of directories for xman to search.

       setenv MANPATH /mit/kit/man:/usr/man

       By default, xman will search each of the following directories (in each of the directories
       specified in the users MANPATH) for manual pages.  If manual pages exist in that directory
       then  they are added to list of manual pages for the corresponding menu item.  A menu item
       is only displayed for those sections that actually contain manual pages.

       Directory   Section Name
       -           -
       man1        (1) User Commands
       man2        (2) System Calls
       man3        (3) Subroutines
       man4        (4) Devices
       man5        (5) File Formats
       man6        (6) Games

       man7        (7) Miscellaneous
       man8        (8) Sys. Administration
       manl        (l) Local
       mann        (n) New
       mano        (o) Old

       For instance, a user has three directories in her manual path and each contain a directory
       called  man3.   All  these  manual  pages  will appear alphabetically sorted when the user
       selects the menu item called (3) Subroutines.  If there is no directory called mano in any
       of  the directories in her MANPATH, or there are no manual pages in any of the directories
       called mano then no menu item will be displayed for the section called (o) Old.

BSD AND LINUX SYSTEMS

       In newer BSD and Linux systems, Xman will search for a file named /etc/man.conf which will
       contain  the  list  of directories containing manual pages. See man.conf(5) for a complete
       description of the file format.

THE MANDESC FILE

       By using the mandesc file a user or system manager is able to more closely  control  which
       manual pages will appear in each of the sections represented by menu items in the Sections
       menu.  This functionality is only available on a section by section basis, and  individual
       manual  pages may not be handled in this manner.  (Although generous use of symbolic links
       — see ln(1) — will allow almost any configuration you can imagine.)

       The format of the mandesc file  is  a  character  followed  by  a  label.   The  character
       determines  which  of  the  sections will be added under this label.  For instance suppose
       that you would like to create an extra menu item that contains all programmer subroutines.
       This  label  should  contain all manual pages in both sections two and three.  The mandesc
       file would look like this:

       2Programmer Subroutines
       3Programmer Subroutines

       This will add a menu item to the Sections menu that would bring up a listing of all manual
       pages  in  sections  two  and  three of the Programmers Manual.  Since the label names are
       exactly the same they will be added to the same section. Note, however, that the  original
       sections still exist.

       If  you  want to completely ignore the default sections in a manual directory then add the
       line:

       no default sections

       anywhere in your mandesc file.  This keeps xman from searching the default manual sections
       In  that  directory  only.  As an example, suppose you want to do the same thing as above,
       but you don't think that it is useful to have the System Calls or Subroutines sections any
       longer.  You would need to duplicate the default entries, as well as adding your new one.

       no default sections
       1(1) User Commands
       2Programmer Subroutines
       3Programmer Subroutines
       4(4) Devices
       5(5) File Formats
       6(6) Games
       7(7) Miscellaneous
       8(8) Sys. Administration
       l(l) Local
       n(n) New
       o(o) Old

       Xman  will  read  any  section that is of the from man<character>, where <character> is an
       upper or lower case letter (they are treated distinctly) or a numeral (0-9).   Be  warned,
       however, that man(1) and catman(8) will not search directories that are non-standard.

WIDGETS

       In  order  to  specify  resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy of the widgets which
       compose xman.  In the notation below, indentation indicates hierarchical  structure.   The
       widget class name is given first, followed by the widget instance name.

       Xman xman       (This widget is never used)
               TopLevelShell  topBox
                       Form  form
                               Label  topLabel
                               Command  helpButton
                               Command  quitButton
                               Command  manpageButton
                       TransientShell  search
                               DialogWidgetClass  dialog
                                       Label  label
                                       Text  value
                                       Command  manualPage
                                       Command  apropos
                                       Command  cancel
                       TransientShell  pleaseStandBy
                               Label  label
               TopLevelShell  manualBrowser
                       Paned  Manpage_Vpane
                               Paned  horizPane
                                       MenuButton  options
                                       MenuButton  sections
                                       Label  manualBrowser
                               Viewport  directory
                                       List  directory
                                       List  directory
                                       .
                                       . (one for each section,
                                       .  created on the fly)
                                       .
                               ScrollByLine  manualPage
                       SimpleMenu  optionMenu
                               SmeBSB  displayDirectory
                               SmeBSB  displayManualPage
                               SmeBSB  help
                               SmeBSB  search
                               SmeBSB  showBothScreens
                               SmeBSB  removeThisManpage
                               SmeBSB  openNewManpage
                               SmeBSB  showVersion
                               SmeBSB  quit
                       SimpleMenu  sectionMenu
                               SmeBSB  <name of section>
                                       .
                                       . (one for each section)
                                       .
                       TransientShell  search
                               DialogWidgetClass  dialog
                                       Label  label
                                       Text  value
                                       Command  manualPage
                                       Command  apropos
                                       Command  cancel
                       TransientShell  pleaseStandBy
                               Label  label
                       TransientShell  likeToSave
                               Dialog  dialog
                                       Label  label
                                       Text  value
                                       Command  yes
                                       Command  no
               TopLevelShell  help
                       Paned  Manpage_Vpane
                               Paned  horizPane
                                       MenuButton  options
                                       MenuButton  sections
                                       Label  manualBrowser
                               ScrollByLine  manualPage
                       SimpleMenu  optionMenu
                               SmeBSB  displayDirectory
                               SmeBSB  displayManualPage
                               SmeBSB  help
                               SmeBSB  search
                               SmeBSB  showBothScreens
                               SmeBSB  removeThisManpage
                               SmeBSB  openNewManpage
                               SmeBSB  showVersion
                               SmeBSB  quit

APPLICATION RESOURCES

       xman has the following application-specific resources which allow customizations unique to
       xman.

       manualFontNormal (Class Font)
                         The font to use for normal text in the manual pages.

       manualFontBold (Class Font)
                         The font to use for bold text in the manual pages.

       manualFontItalic (Class Font)
                         The font to use for italic text in the manual pages.

       directoryFontNormal (Class Font)
                         The font to use for the directory text.

       bothShown (Class Boolean)
                         Either `true' or `false,' specifies whether or not  you  want  both  the
                         directory and the manual page shown at start up.

       directoryHeight (Class DirectoryHeight)
                         The height in pixels of the directory, when the directory and the manual
                         page are shown simultaneously.

       topCursor (Class Cursor)
                         The cursor to use in the top box.

       helpCursor (Class Cursor)
                         The cursor to use in the help window.

       manpageCursor (Class Cursor)
                         The cursor to use in the manual page window.

       searchEntryCursor (Class Cursor)
                         The cursor to use in the search entry text widget.

       pointerColor (Class Foreground)
                         This is the color of all the cursors (pointers)  specified  above.   The
                         name was chosen to be compatible with xterm.

       helpFile  (Class File)
                         Use this rather than the system default helpfile.

       topBox (Class Boolean)
                         Either `true' or `false,' determines whether the top box (containing the
                         help, quit and manual page buttons) or a  manual  page  is  put  on  the
                         screen at start-up.  The default is true.

       verticalList (Class Boolean)
                         Either  `true'  or  `false,' determines whether the directory listing is
                         vertically  or  horizontally  organized.   The  default  is   horizontal
                         (false).

GLOBAL ACTIONS

       Xman  defines all user interaction through global actions.  This allows the user to modify
       the translation table of any widget, and bind any event to the new user action.  The  list
       of actions supported by xman are:

       GotoPage(page) When  used in a manual page display window this will allow the user to move
                      between a directory and manual page display.   The  page  argument  can  be
                      either Directory or ManualPage.

       Quit()         This action may be used anywhere, and will exit xman.

       Search(type, action)
                      Only  useful when used in a search popup, this action will cause the search
                      widget to perform the named search type on the string in the search popup's
                      value  widget.  This  action will also pop down the search widget. The type
                      argument can be either Apropos, Manpage or Cancel.  If an action of Open is
                      specified  then  xman will open a new manual page to display the results of
                      the search, otherwise xman will attempt  to  display  the  results  in  the
                      parent of the search popup.

       PopupHelp()    This action may be used anywhere, and will popup the help widget.

       PopupSearch()  This  action  may  be used anywhere except in a help window.  It will cause
                      the search popup to become active and visible on the screen,  allowing  the
                      user search for a manual page.

       CreateNewManpage()
                      This action may be used anywhere, and will create a new manual page display
                      window.

       RemoveThisManpage()
                      This action may be used in any manual page or help  display  window.   When
                      called  it  will  remove  the window, and clean up all resources associated
                      with it.

       SaveFormattedPage(action)
                      This action can only be used in the likeToSave popup widget, and tells xman
                      whether  to  Save  or  Cancel  a save of the manual page that has just been
                      formatted.

       ShowVersion()  This action may be called from any manual page or help display window,  and
                      will  cause  the  informational display line to show the current version of
                      xman.

FILES

       <manpath directory>/man<character>

       <manpath directory>/cat<character>

       <manpath directory>/mandesc

       /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xman
                                specifies required resources.

       /tmp                     Xman creates temporary files in  /tmp  for  all  unformatted  man
                                pages and all apropos searches.

SEE ALSO

       X(7), man(1), apropos(1), catman(8), Athena Widget Set

ENVIRONMENT

       DISPLAY        the default host and display to use.

       MANPATH        the  search  path  for  manual  pages.  Directories are separated by colons
                      (e.g. /usr/man:/mit/kit/man:/foo/bar/man).

       XENVIRONMENT   to get the name of a resource file  that  overrides  the  global  resources
                      stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.

       XAPPLRESDIR    A  string  that will have ``Xman'' appended to it.  This string will be the
                      full path name of a user app-defaults file to be merged into  the  resource
                      database  after the system app-defaults file, and before the resources that
                      are attached to the display.
                      See X(7) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

AUTHORS

       Chris Peterson, MIT X Consortium from the V10 version written by Barry Shein  formerly  of
       Boston  University.  Bug fixes and Linux support by Carlos A M dos Santos, for The XFree86
       Project.