On Wed 26 Feb 2014 13:46:22 Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > What do you want in a man page? Videos? 3D holograms?
Only if they would help give an answer to the question you are trying to answer! > XTerm does not constrain nothing. It does what is expected from a terminal. > Do you think your lawnmower needs a fix because you can take a ride on it? > It's not a motorcycle. It probably depends on the size of the lawn. > Man pages are not tutorials or complete manuals, they're just an > aide-mémomire. It takes more time to open Okular than reading what you > need! A simple, but completely unreliable, test, just opening a man page with and without okular:- [derij@pip ~]$ time man df real 0m1.577s user 0m0.033s sys 0m0.008s [derij@pip ~]$ time man -t df real 0m1.863s user 0m0.483s sys 0m0.064s The unreliability is down to the speed I can press Q or Alt-F4, but it does show that you are correct that okular is slower to start, by about .3 of a second. Of course, if you are not already in a KDE environment, then the start time for okular would include the whole kde stack, making it very slow indeed. If such is the case, and, since you are using xterm rather than konsole, it probably is, then perhaps using xpdf rather than okular would improve your experience. > Seriously guys, you need a big dose of Common Sense. My post was intended to point out that groff (rather than nroff) is still useful for man pages, for people who find it easier to read if the content is typographically superior to reading terminal text. My mistake was to not mention that other pdf readers may be more suitable for individual setups.It may be necessary to alter the man.config command I gave for other pdf readers. Cheers Deri
