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How is there an entire lengthy page discussing it that doesn’t provide any screenshots?
by electric_mayhem 4y ago
How is there an entire lengthy page discussing it that doesn’t provide any screenshots?
- felixgallo 4y agobecause man pages don't have screenshots.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoit's possible the person asking the question is younger than good old manpages.
- rbanffy 4y agoTo be fair, they could. Some VT terminals could display ReGIS and Sixel graphics. Sixel is a terrible standard, BTW, but at least it can be easily integrated into the character flow of a page. ReGIS (and Tektronix) can't.
- rzzzt 4y agoClassic window managers and screenshots can be found on this page: http://www.xwinman.org/vtwm.php http://www.xwinman.org/vtwm.php
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoWhy would you need screenshots, when all you'd ever do is running terminal emulators? As it seems customary.
- electric_mayhem 4y agoI guess since it’s a news article I assumed it was some bleeding edge implementation of something non-mainstream like a tiling window manager. So I clicked through and was like… a couple pics would do way better at helping me understand what it was on about. Then a reply here had a link of what looked my early 00s openbsd sparcstation desktop. And suddenly it all made sense.
- rzzzt 4y agoI also need a pair of googly eyes that follow every movement of the mouse cursor and Neko, the tiny cat to sleep on it.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThis is the one true way to validate DISPLAY is set correctly for remote apps.
- teddyh 4y agoI prefer xlogo, personally.
- jbaber 4y agoAndroid version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tamanegi.aneko https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tamanegi.a...
- mgerdts 4y agoI probably was using twm the first time I used NCSA Mosaic. A few months later Al Gore gave a speech talking about the information superhighway.
- guessbest 4y agoman pages don't have screenshots. They typically use a pager, but they can have formatting. Just type 'man man' in the cli without the single quotes. Online used to mean documentation provided on the local system. X11R7.6 Manual Pages: Section 1: Commands https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/man/man1 https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/man/man1
- jeffbee 4y agoOf course, there is not a reason why the manual page cannot have images and figures. The whole PIC language exists to put diagrams into things like ?roff, and it was at one time de rigueur to format the manual pages to postscript and send them to the printer. It was also common in later times to generate PS or DVI output and view that with the appropriate viewer. Honestly viewing the manual pages with a plain text pager is the new, worse-is-better method.
- alexjm 4y agoMost man pages give good PostScript output with "man -t". I like reading those on screen or occasionally printing manuals I refer to frequently. The main problem I've run into in recent years are man pages that use ASCII art but don't wrap that in explicit roff requests for a fixed-width font, making the result mostly unreadable outside the terminal.