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create ~/.seeconfig for seeman (GUI "manpage" viewer for X windows) apt install seetxt && seeconfig-for-seeman.sh && seeman seeman
#! /usr/bin/env bash
### https://manpages.debian.org/testing/seetxt/seeman.1.en.html
touch ~/seefilelist
touch ~/seedata
if [ ! -f ~/.seeconfig ]; then
echo "text font: helvetica 12" >> ~/.seeconfig
echo "filelist: /home/$USER/seefilelist" >> ~/.seeconfig
echo "seedata: /home/$USER/seedata" >> ~/.seeconfig
echo "dimensions: 900 600" >> ~/.seeconfig
fi
ls -l ~/.seeconfig
cat ~/.seeconfig
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By the way, macos for many years had a similar gui man-page viewer called manopen. It has been resurected recently, and even runs on apple-silicon at https://github.com/nickzman/ManOpen

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