what is the difference of xman
from man
. And what kind of help files can be exclusively browsed with xman
.
1 Answer
xman
is a graphical tool from x11-apps
packages which allows you to browse into all manual pages installed in system using a simple GUI, based on sections (Category: is it a system call, files man, etc), lets you run searchs, apropos
, etc.
For example you can use Ctrl+s to open up a search window:
Then you can search for a man pages or run apropos
for specific word.
It's same as man
with a GUI.
Here is the directory of manual pages for system calls: