In the GNOME desktop, Yelp is the help browser that appears when F1 is pressed. It provides a simple gui to view program information, manpages or anything else that the user desires. It uses simple html formatting and has been based on the webkit rendering engine since version 3.
Questions tagged [yelp]
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Why documentation says release is 11.04 instead of 10.10
I went to the desktop menu and opened System->About Ubuntu to read more. It says You are using Ubuntu 11.04 when I am using 10.10. Why is that so?
Update: This has been fixed!
user7182
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Why is it taking so long to open the Ubuntu Help Center?
When I click on the Help Center Icon in the 'System' menu, it takes more than a minute to launch the program. More than a minute, for a text only program seeming like a website!
All my other programs work fine, and I saw this problem also on other…
Agmenor
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yelp cannot find GNOME help files
tl;dr
The summary of all the following is roughly this:
Remove or move the directory /usr/share/help/C/gnome-help.
Run the command sudo apt reinstall gnome-user-docs gnome-getting-started-docs ubuntu-docs.
The missing directory and its contents…
FedKad
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How to run full text search on help pages offline (from Yelp / gnome-help or something other)?
I have both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed.
I want to search for documentation and read it off-line (as it is included to the installed packages in /usr/share/help and other locations). As far I can understand it has three…
N0rbert
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Can I browse and search man pages in Yelp?
I can open Yelp to a specific man page as follows:
yelp man:bash &
But how can I use Yelp to browse (view a list of all man pages and open them one by one) and search (find all man pages that contain a given string)?
lofidevops
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How to get Yelp to open the docs?
quickly tutorial
Result: An empty Yelp window with the XML file opened in gedit.
yelp /usr/share/quickly/templates/ubuntu-application/help/tutorial.xml --> Exactly the same problem.
Worked fine a few days ago.
Manually changing the file…
RobinJ
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From where Ubuntu help(yelp) reads its files?
I tried to remove Ubuntu Desktop Guide from Yelp(Ubuntu help)..
sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-docs
But still shown whenever I open help?!
From where are those files? and how yelp treat them? and how to get rid totally of those ubuntu-docs?!
In fact…
Maythux
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Not Able To View HTML Using GNOME Yelp
In the GNOME Yelp docs, it says that Yelp supports viewing HTML. But when I run yelp file:///home/myusername/Desktop/test.html, it displays "The URL can't be shown."
How can I resolve it? Actually I want to view my docs offline which I've converted…
Sarvottam Kumar
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Yelp line is too wide for man pages
I am generally using yelp (the life preserver icon on the desktop) to view system man pages. After I open yelp, I can press Ctrl+L and enter man:man for example to view the man page for the man command.
This works OK. However, the line width is…
FedKad
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Yelp help browser and the scrollkeeper catalogue
I need some help in understanding how the Yelp Help Browser works. When I start Yelp in Ubuntu 17.10 I get the Ubuntu Desktop Guide, and when I search for terms that should definitely be contained in some of the documentation packages I recently…
Inda Vidjool
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yelp displays blank (real) help pages
Newish user of Lubuntu 16.10 trying desperately to shed MS Windows. HELP button on more than one utility launches yelp with correct title in title bar, but help window is blank. HOWEVER, mouse pointer can find links and hovering displays correct…
ghm in abq
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How can I search GNU info pages with Dash?
There is a scope for searching manual pages but I fail to find a scope for searching GNU info pages. I can launch { yelp 'info:coreutils'; } from the command line but not from the Dash.
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Yelp package building problem
I'm using Ubuntu12.04 lts.
When I built the yelp package from it's source with dpkg-buildpackage command, It shows me following message,
and It fall a sleep.
gtk-doc: Scanning header files
(process:30532): Gtk-CRITICAL **:…
Caomomo
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Man command does not work with yelp
When I was introduced with Ubuntu 8.04, the Yelp (Ubuntu documentation) was aware of man command: simply type man: into the search string showed the desired man page in HTML look and feel. However, since release 13.04 this feature looks…
Danatela
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Where to save Yelp files?
I've written some yelp pages using Mallard. Now I would like to know where to
save them correctly in the file system (packaging). The saved Yelp files should be
displayed when opening Yelp -> Go -> All Documents too.
Addition:
It's kind hard to find…
Paradiesstaub
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