Intro

ChmSee is an HTML Help viewer for Unix/Linux.

It is based on CHMLIB and uses GTK2+ as frontend toolkit. Because of using gecko as the HTML rendering engine, it can support rich features of modern HTML page, such as CSS and JavaScript.

News

detail news in http://github.com/lidaobing/chmsee/tree/master/NEWS

• 2009-05-17: ChmSee 1.0.5 released. support fullscreen, switch to cmake, fix several bugs, 6 new languages supported.
• 2009-03-14: ChmSee 1.0.4 released. supoprt "drag & drop", fix several bugs, drop cs2w.
• 2009-01-10: ChmSee 1.0.3 released. add "copy page location" in context menu, update translation.
• 2009-01-05: Move ChmSee project homepage from http://chmsee.gro.clinux.org to http://code.google.com/p/chmsee/.

Installation

From source code

Dependencies

Before compile chmsee, you need to check following libraries or their development packages are already installed on your system.

• Gtk2+
• libglade
• gecko
• chmlib
• libgcrypt

Compilation

$ tar xzf chmsee-1.0.2.tar.gz
$ cd chmsee-1.0.2
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install-strip

Linux Distribution

• Debian: http://packages.debian.org/sid/chmsee
• Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chmsee
• Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/chmsee
• openSUSE: http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/opensuse/chmsee.html
• Archlinux: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3316
• FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/deskutils/chmsee/
• Gentoo China overlay: http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-china-overlay/source/browse/#svn/trunk/app-text/chmsee
• MacOS: http://chmsee.darwinports.com/

Screenshot

Authors

ChmSee is originally developed by zhong. Since version 0.9.6, it is refactored and developed by Ji YongGang, Li Daobing and rae l.