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Get help on the GUI

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Get help on the GUI

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- [Interviewer] Getting help for commands when using the GUI is not as simple as you might think. When you need help, information on a command, it's just easier to use the man or info commands in a terminal. However, there are times when you might want to have a graphical tool to view system documentation with. To view the system help browser, go into overview mode and click the life preserver icon on the dock. If for some reason you do not have the icon, you can type in "help" and it will come up. Interestingly, this shows help for graphical applications and for the GNOME desktop itself. It can view info and man pages as well but the functionality is hidden. Your first instinct may be to click the search button and type in the name of a command, for instance GREP, to show the man page for that program. But as you can see, it says there are no help pages for GREP. Now press control L and then control A and type in…

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