[Bug 204017] man page of xrandr does not work

[Julian H. Stacey]

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:'

> 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.

> Kind regards,
> Christoph


Cheers,
Julian
--
Julian Stacey,  BSD Linux Unix Sys. Eng. Consultant Munich http://berklix.com
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