[NTLUG:Discuss] gless missing from gnome-utils

[Paul Ingendorf]

This is what looks to be the problem with gless at the moment.  It was
written by a guy who was just learning GTK when he wrote it.  With the newer
features in gnome 2 it was dropped.  Apparently it does not work with Bonobo
which "is the gnome architecture for creating reusable software components"
(http://developer.gnome.org/arch/component/bonobo.html)  Given that if you
want a component like that I would suggest you simply use a text editor for
X that suports standard in.  Older programs exhist like xless that might do
the trick for you or if you like it to pop up a new window when you run it
try just calling a new terminal window with the less argument.  Something
like xterm -e less as your pager might do the trick.

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of Val W. Harris
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 12:09 AM
To: NTLUG Discuss
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] gless missing from gnome-utils


Do any of the RedHat Gurus know what happened to the file reader/pager
program named gless?

An "rpm -qf /usr/bin/gless" answers "gnome-utils-1.4.0-9" on RedHat 7.3.

I couldn't find it on a new RedHat 8.0 install I just did.  I tried
"rpm -ql gnome-utils-2.0.2-5" and verified it's no longer in the
gnome-utils rpm package.  Does anyone know what the "g" in gless stood
for?  I checked the GNU and Gnome web sites and didn't find any info
about gless.

I wandered RedHat's web site to no avail, also.  My google searches
only found gless for RedHat distro's <= 7.3.

I was using gless to open a new window when I called up a man page.
This allowed me to keep the man page in view while I entered the
command I had just looked up in my original terminal window.  The alias
and function definition I used for this was:

   alias man='_man'

   _man(){
     \man ${1+"$@"} 2>&1 | col -b | gless &
   }

If I can't find gless, I suppose I could use another pager program.
Any suggestions?

Any light anyone can shed on this mystery would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Val
--
Val W. Harris              vwharris at airmail.net

"If you have tried to do something but couldn't,
you are far better off than if you tried to do
nothing and succeeded" - John T. Ragland, Jr.


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