Quick Start Guide

The menu and the toolbar provide options for navigating and customizing the help
center, for searching and for printing contents from Help. To view a table of contents,
click the home icon or press [Alt] + [Home]. The help topics are grouped into cate-
gories presented as links. Click one of the links to open a list of topics for that cate-
gory. To search for an item, just enter the search string into the search eld at the
top of the window.
8.3 Browsing Man and Info Pages From Your
Desktop
With the KDE or GNOME desktop, you can also access (or print) man pages and info
pages:
KDE
In Dolphin or Konqueror, to view the man page for ls, type man:/ls in the location
bar. If there are dierent categories for a command, Konqueror displays them as
links. To display the info page for grep, for example, type info:/grep.
In the KDE help center, click UNIX Manual Pages or Browse Info Pagesin the table
of contents to browse man pages and info pages. You may also use the search
and limit the scope to UNIX Manual Pages.
GNOME
Run yelp man:ls or yelp info:ls to display the man or info page. Alternatively
enter man:ls or info:ls in the search eld of Yelp.
Figure 8.3 Viewing a Man Page With Konqueror
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