DWWW(1)

📦 version 1.16build1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ DWWW — the girlies are reading docs today ✨

okay so real talk, bestie: dwww is literally your ✨access documentation via WWW✨ era, and honestly? it ate. it's the Debian manual page, it's giving dwww(1), and we're gonna walk through it together like it's a group chat. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

no thoughts, just these three lines, exactly as written:

http://localhost/dwww/index.html
dwww
dwww program-name | package-name

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, a typical Linux system has documentation in so many formats — manual pages, info files, READMEs, and so on — and it's a whole mess, right? 🙈 dwww makes it possible to access all of these via the same interface: a WWW browser. which makes using the documentation, like, actually easier. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

to use dwww, load the URL given in the SYNOPSIS. and if you have a web browser installed, you can also just run the dwww command, which loads that URL for you. easy.

now here's the tea on how it picks a browser 🍓: if the BROWSER environment variable is set, dwww uses sensible-browser(1) to load the URL. otherwise, dwww first tries to use the browser specified by the DWWW_BROWSER or DWWW_X11_BROWSER configuration variable (cf. dwww(7)), and then will use the sensible-browser(1) command. slay, it has a whole priority list. 💅

and if the optional argument program-name or package-name is specified, dwww will search all documentation related to the given program or package. so you can be like "show me everything about this one thing" and it delivers. 🫶

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • BROWSER — the program used to load the above mentioned URL. that's it, that's the whole vibe. ✨

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/dwww/dwww.conf — configuration file for dwww. lowkey important, highkey where the settings live. 📁

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read these next, bestie, they're all connected:

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>. Modified by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>.

bugs should be reported via the Debian Bug Tracking System at <URL:https://bugs.debian.org/>. don't suffer in silence, babes, tell the maintainers. 😭

dwww is licensed via the GNU General Public License. and while it has been written for Debian, porting it to other systems is strongly encouraged. go off, port it, make it yours. 🌍💫

and that's the whole page, fr fr — this was dwww version 1.14, dated December 21th, 2020, and yes the manual name is DWWW(1) in case you were wondering where it went. 💖 bye bestie, go read some docs 🦋

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