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Subject: man lore Re: Mouse-keyboard config: followup From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:11:30 +1000 On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 05:26:05PM -0500, David Talkington wrote: | In case it helps someone else, I found my answers in a very old Unix | book: xset and xsetroot accept arguments for anything I could possibly | want to do, without the aid of front-ends. | Is this stuff poorly documented, or have I just missed something? Man | pages only help when you know what command you're looking for ... man -k guess-several-times is pretty helpful, often. Or: grep keyword /usr/X11R6/man/man[18]/* can help too. The old permuted index (go read "man ptx") was very cool, but recent systems don't supply it. ===