From the course: Linux: System Information and Directory Structure Tools (2017)

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Get help on the GUI

Get help on the GUI - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux: System Information and Directory Structure Tools (2017)

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Get help on the GUI

- [Voiceover] Getting help for command line programs when using the GUI isn't as easy as you might think. When we need help on the command line, it's just using to use a MAN or info commands. However, there are times where we might want to have a graphical tool to view system documentation. Printing MAN pages would be a good example of why we might want to access them from the GUI. The system help browser's called, "Yelp" and we can find it by going to applications, favorites, and clicking on "help." The help pages that comes up by default is only for GUI applications and the GNOME desktop. Let's close the help browser so we can run it from the command line. Let's open a terminal by going to applications, favorites, and clicking on terminal. I'll make mine full-screen and bump the font size. To view the crontab MAN page in the help browser, type "yelp, space, man, colon, crontab," and hit enter. By viewing the MAN page in Yelp, we can print it by going to the hamburger menu and…

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