[Bug 204017] man page of xrandr does not work

[Christoph Brinkhaus]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 03:40:57PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

Hi Julian!
> Hi,
> Christoph Brinkhaus wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 08:20:12PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > > Hi, Reference:
> > > > From:		bugzilla-noreply at freebsd.org
> > > > Date:		Sun, 25 Oct 2015 18:19:26 +0000
> > > 
> > > bugzilla-noreply at freebsd.org wrote:
> > > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204017
> > > > 
> > > >             Bug ID: 204017
> > > >            Summary: man page of xrandr does not work
> > > >            Product: Documentation
> > > >            Version: Latest
> > > >           Hardware: Any
> > > >                 OS: Any
> > > >             Status: New
> > > >           Severity: Affects Many People
> > > >           Priority: ---
> > > >          Component: Documentation
> > > >           Assignee: freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org
> > > >           Reporter: c.brinkhaus at t-online.de
> > > > 
> > > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
> > > > section 5.4 liks to xrandr(1). Clicking to the link opens
> > > > https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xrandr&sektion=1 with the result
> > > > 
> > > > Sorry, no data found for `xrandr(1)'. Please try a keyword search.
> > > > You may look for other FreeBSD Search Services.
> > > > 
> > > > I did not found a man page of xrandr.
> > > 
> > > /usr/ports/x11/xrandr 
> > > PS Its a nice util.
> > 
> > Dear Julian,
> > 
> > the issue is more or less my fault because I was not aware
> > that I have the option to change the man page query to +ports.
> 
> I converted my `man' to search local so long ago I couldnt remember
> I'd done it, or how, so searched & found I had:
>   /etc/csh.cshrc: setenv  MANPATH \
>     '/usr/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/doc:'
> 
I am happy with my current MANPATH. May be the newer installations provide
already a good default compared to the past. But it is good to know how to
modify it if necessary. Thank you for this information.

> > On the other hand it would be nice if the man page would appear
> > without having to change the default options.
> 
> Agreed. I can't imagine many people run FreeBSD without ports, & even the few
> minimalist systems that do, I can't imagine it will hurt if man command also
> finaly looks in /usr/local/man
> 
> > Should I mark the bug as closed because it is not a real bug?
> > Or should I leave it untouched because the behaviour is not as expected?
> 
> Well I'm coming in late, it was really just to point you at xrandr,
> (& even more so, to `arandr' which helped me when I got stuck on
> xrandr syntax) I haven't read your bug report, but if youve submitted
> a diff to man to look in local would seem a good idea, would make
> FreeBSD more initially useful to lots of newcomers.

I really was not sure how to judge the behaviour. I think a diff is only
useful if the author of the bug report has a good suggestion.
But thank again for pointing me to xrandr. I appreciate all the tools
which make FreeBSD so powerful and userfriendly.
> 
> > Kind regards,
> > Christoph
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Julian

Kind regards,
Christoph