From: gtkmm-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:gtkmm-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Jonathon Jongsma > regarding displaying a uninstalled help file, did you try the following format? file:///path/to/file.xml (three '/' characters) ghelp:///path/to/file.xml works! With a little more work I managed to read from the current directory without hardcoding the path. I did that with gnome-vfs since I'm already using it for starting the help browser. Example attached. Perhaps I'll also try with libgnome. In fact that's what I looked at originally, but I wanted to do it in C++ and did not find a wrapping function for gnome_help_display in libgnomemm. But now the gnome-vfs code is also in C (if a C++ binding exists I didn't find it) so libgnome might be better. But then they are both deprecated and there isn't much point in struggling for a marginally better solution. I guess I'm keeping with whatever works until the next Debian stable comes out and I can use gtk_show_uri (if they wrap it in time) or giomm (Gio::AppInfo::launch_default_for_uri which is already in Debian testing). Thank you for all your help. Gerardo
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