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Figure 15.18: Man page index in GNOME’s Help Browser
which will start the X Window System manual browser. When the menu appears, click on Manual
Page. From here, you’ll have a number of options from which to find a man page: You can alpha-
betically display all the man pages on your system; search for them by command or by the section in
which they appear.
To see the scope of help available, bring up your manual browser, then click on Manual Page then,
under Options, click on Display Directory. Here, you’ll find the complete list of man pages available
to you.
From the shell prompt:
If you’re not in an X session, you can still read the man pages by typing
man pagename
at the shell prompt. To scroll forward through the document, press
Space ;toscrollback,press B .
To quit the document, press
Q .
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