VuuMan

Basic GUI man-page browser and viewer

Simple GUI tool to search and view man pages. The top bar is for search and results appear in the main pane for choosing and opening, the bottom bar is for if you already know the name of the page and just want to open it. You can have multiple pages open, they are spawned by the main C+GTK window as separate instances of a yad text-info dialog, nice and readable. It uses apropos to search and only requires yad, man-db, and gtk.

How to Use

• Type your search term into the top bar then click Search (or just hit enter)
• Search results will appear in the main pane, highlight one and click View Selection
• To clear the top search bar and results window click the Clear button at the top right
• If you know the name of the man page you want already, simply type it into the bottom bar
• and click View Page (or just hit enter), to clear the bottom bar click the Clear button at the bottom right

Building from Source

Dependencies

build-essential pkg-config libgtk-3-dev

Compile

gcc -Wall -o vuuman vuuman.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0)

Runtime dependencies

libgtk-3-0, yad, man-db

Downloads

Pre-built .deb packages:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do/files/Miscellaneous/apps/VuuMan/