---
name: "tkinfo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tkinfo"
version: "2.11-5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tkinfo"
---

# tkinfo(1)

program to view GNU Info files

## NAME

tkinfo - program to view GNU Info files

## SYNOPSIS

**tkinfo** \[ **--help** \] \[ **-headers** \| **+headers** \] \[ **-buttons** \| **+buttons** \] \[ **-scrollthrough** \| **+scrollthrough** \] \[ **-pagesep** \| **+pagesep** \] \[ **-showdir** \| **+showdir** \] \[ **-balloons** \| **+balloons** \] \[ **-linklook** *type* \] \[ **-highlight** *type* \] \[ **-searchlook** *type* \] \[ **-geometry** *geom* \] \[ **-display** *display* \] \[ **-iconic** \] \[ **-dir** *dir1* \] \[ **-dir** *dir2* \] ... \[ *node* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**tkinfo** is a graphical browser for documentation in the GNU Info hypertext format.

## OPTIONS

- **--help**

  Produces a short help message.

- **-/+headers**

  Turns on/off display of the raw info node headers in the first line of the window. Default is on.

- **-/+buttons**

  Turns on/off display of the button row. Default is on.

- **-/+balloons**

  Turns on/off balloonhelp for the buttons. Default is on.

- **-/+scrollthrough**

  Turns on/off jumping to the successor node when attempting to scroll at the bottom of a node. Default is on.

- **-/+pagesep**

  Turns on/off inserting of page separators when scrolling page-wise.  Default is on.

- **-/+showdir**

  Turns on/off showing the full pathname of the displayed info file. Default is off.

- **-linklook** *type*

  Specifies how to display cross references and menu entries.   *type* must be one of "color", "font", or "underline". Default is "color" on  color displays and "underline" on black and white displays.

- **-highlight** *type*

  Specifies how to highlight links.  *type* must be one of "color", "inverse", or "underline". Default is "inverse".

- **-searchlook** *type*

  Specifies how to highlight matches after searches. *type* must be one of "color", "inverse", or "underline". Default is "inverse".

- **-geometry** *geom*

  Geometry of the window.  *geom* must be of the form XxY+A+B or XxY or +A+B, where X and Y specify the size of the window in characters and A and B the location in pixels.

- **-display** *display*

  X display to use for the  **tkinfo** window.

- **-iconic**

  Start the first window in iconic state.

- **-dir** *dir*

  Specifies directories to search for info files, in addition to those contained in the INFOPATH environment variable.  The directories specified with -dir will be searched first, in the order given.

- *node*

  Specifies the info node to visit initially. Possible formats for *node* are:\
  \
     "(filename)nodename"  most general\
  \
     "(filename)"          equivalent to (filename)Top\
  \
     "filename"            equivalent to (filename).

If filename is not absolute, the info directories (from INFOPATH and -dir) will be searched. If filename cannot be found, its lower case version will be tried.

An alternative way to specify the node "(FILE)NODE" is with "-file FILE -node NODE".

If no  *node* is given, the default node "(dir)Top" is used.

## ENVIRONMENT

- **INFOPATH**

  A colon (\`\`:'') separated list of directories to search for info files. More directories can be given with -dir options, above. If not set,  **tkinfo** will try various standard directories that should be ok for most systems.

- **INFOSUFFIX**

  A colon separated list of file suffixes to try when searching for an info file. If not set,  **tkinfo** will try the suffixes "", ".info", and "-info". In addition,  **tkinfo** will always automatically try the suffixes .Z, .z, and .gz and deal with the compressed file if necessary.

## SEE ALSO

The program documents itself in the info format: start it and type "h". Customization via X resources is also documented in that way.

You can get additional information and the latest version of  **tkinfo** on the WWW at http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/tkinfo/

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Craig Sanders \<cas@taz.net.au\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system and released under the GNU General Public License. Some changes were made by Axel Boldt \<axelboldt@yahoo.com\>.