5 Setting up Man Pages

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After compiling the tree, or after installing the binary distribution you can get man to recognise the XFree86 man pages by adding /usr/X11R6/man to the MANPATH in /etc/default/man, the line should look similar to:

    MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man
This allows all users to view the X man pages. You may change your own MANPATH environment variable if you do not want everyone to access the man pages.

By default the man pages are compressed using ``compress'' to conserve space. If you do not want to compress the man pages change CompressManPages to NO in your ``xf86site.def'' file. Those using the binary distribution can use ``uncompress'' to uncompress the man pages.

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