Curiosity

[sg-1]

We open system folders with Firefox to read the contents.

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[Eadwine Rose]

Your question..?

[sg-1]

I have no questions to ask only to those who visit the forum.

[skidoo]

Thanks, sg-1. It is a good tip, an efficient way for curious learners to browse the filesystem.

[Stevo]

Another browser trick is to open man pages in them instead of the terminal, since the formatting is much nicer, with

man:packagename

[jj1j1]

I'm interested in this, but it doesn't work for me. I see the format is similar to, "about:config", or "about:preferences", but for example, "man:ls" brings up a "Select Application" dialog box.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I don't have a graphical file manager installed so FF can be useful for quick browsing of the filesystem tree (although I prefer ranger).

it doesn't work for me

How about

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man -Hfirefox ls

It used to work for me in Debian stretch but it seems to be broken in buster

[jj1j1]

This is what I get:

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$ man -Hfirefox ls
man: command exited with status 3: /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE | preconv -e UTF-8 | tbl | groff -mandoc -Thtml

[turtlebay777]

I have no questions to ask only to those who visit the forum.

So why the post?

[gosia]

Hello jj1j1,
Did you install groff?

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sudo apt install groff

many greetings gosia