Xman... does it still work?

I like the xman program that gives me a quick listing of all the manpages but the recent versions of Tumbleweed supply an xman that doesn't work. It launches but trying to view any manpage results in a popup stating:

Formatting Manual page, Please Stand By...

and it never returns the manpage text. Closing the popup kills xman.

I have a server also running TW but uses the very simple twm windowing system (when it runs a windowing system at all which is very rare) and xman works fine in that situation.

Is xman (semi) broken or could this be some odd KDE/Plasma6 desktop bug?

TIA for any xman-related information someone might have.

You're not using Wayland, right?

TW a month or so ago upgraded gcc from 13.2 to 14.0. Maybe xman or one of its deps is something that broke and nobody noticed.

The changelog contains maintainers email addresses.

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/

I run Wayland, with XWayland, and teh PLASMA desktop. XMAN works just fine on my system.
I did need to execute the line

export MANPATH=$(manpath)

first to set the environment so it could find the man pages.
IF I used it all the time I would put that in my profile.

Originally Posted by mrmazda You're not using Wayland, right?

No. X11.

TW a month or so ago upgraded gcc from 13.2 to 14.0. Maybe xman or one of its deps is something that broke and nobody noticed.

The basic xman works -- I can select which set of manpages I want (1, 2, 3, etc.) -- but actually viewing a selected page is what's hanging. xman is pretty darned user-configurable but I've never seen anything that seems to depend on an external application to work. Weird.

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/

Ah... leisure reading!

Thanks...

Originally Posted by wpeckham I run Wayland, with XWayland, and teh PLASMA desktop. XMAN works just fine on my system. I did need to execute the line export MANPATH=$(manpath) first to set the environment so it could find the man pages. IF I used it all the time I would put that in my profile.

I've tried:

export MANPATH=${MANPATH}:/usr/share/man
xman

That last path is redundant, I know. Anyway, same end result... hung xman.

Still scratchin' my head.

you might try strace to see what's going on. Probably will help.