Man Helper is a lightweight GUI front-end for man2html under development using Vala and GTK. It features an easy-to-use interface, and aims for a modern GUI viewer for man pages.
You'll need the following dependencies to build:
- gobject-introspection
- libgda-5.0-dev
- libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.24.0)
- libjson-glib-dev
- libsoup2.4-dev
- libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
- libxml2-dev
- meson
- valac
You'll need the following dependencies to run:
- apache2
- man2html
Run meson build to configure the build environment. Change to the build directory and run ninja to build
meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja
To install, use ninja install, then execute with com.github.manhelper
ninja install
com.github.manhelper
- GUI front-end
- find in man page
- search in man database
- bookmarks
- multi-tab views
- zoom in/out
- preferences (font family, theme color, etc)
- sections
- translation