Chapter17.Getting Help on the Desktop

Chapter 17. Getting Help on the Desktop

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

• How to get help for common desktop applications

• How to use the help browser for more detailed help

• How to read the online manuals for shell commands using the desktop help browser

As you've already learned, as you work in Linux, you always have a number of help tools and resources available to you. The Linux desktop offers its own help resources in addition to the Linux man and info pages. You can access systemwide help through menus in common desktop applications. In this chapter, you learn how to use desktop tools to find these and other help and documentation materials for assistance with applications and commands commonly used in Linux systems.

After you learn these techniques for finding and using desktop help, you will have gained the skill to locate nearly any kind of online documentation available on a Linux computer system.