Fix issue 551 by also getting manpath without -g flag.

Ignore-this: ded2d51eb7b7697c0fdfaa8158d612df

Instead of taking Ondrej's approach of figuring out which man (man-db or
http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/) is used by the system, just try
both sets of flags.

darcs-hash:20130716030536-1499c-7e886211a39a6576b40ed277811003d17f90ef88.gz

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/XMonad/Prompt/Man.hs b/XMonad/Prompt/Man.hs
index 6cdaa66..4f6cf55 100644
--- a/XMonad/Prompt/Man.hs
+++ b/XMonad/Prompt/Man.hs
@@ -64,11 +64,15 @@ manPrompt c = do
 
 getMans :: IO [String]
 getMans = do
-  paths <- getCommandOutput "manpath -g 2>/dev/null" `E.catch`
-            \(E.SomeException _) -> return []
+  paths <- do
+    let getout cmd = getCommandOutput cmd `E.catch` \E.SomeException{} -> return ""
+    -- one of these combinations should give some output
+    p1 <- getout "manpath -g 2>/dev/null"
+    p2 <- getout "manpath 2>/dev/null"
+    return $ intercalate ":" $ lines $ p1 ++ p2
   let sects    = ["man" ++ show n | n <- [1..9 :: Int]]
       dirs     = [d ++ "/" ++ s | d <- split ':' paths, s <- sects]
-  mans <- forM dirs $ \d -> do
+  mans <- forM (nub dirs) $ \d -> do
             exists <- doesDirectoryExist d
             if exists
               then map (stripExt . stripSuffixes [".gz", ".bz2"]) `fmap`