Intro

ChmSee is an HTML Help viewer for Unix/Linux.

It is based on CHMLIB and use GTK+ as its frontend toolkit. Because of using gecko HTML rendering engine, ChmSee can support rich features of modern HTML page, specially CSS.

News

• 2012-04-28: Compatible with xulrunner 12.0.
• 2012-04-03: Tag v1.99.09 and support xulrunner 11.0.
• 2012-02-19: Make chmsee compatible with xulrunner 10.0.
• 2012-01-01: Merge Yuan Yijun's patch for xulrunner 9.0 and tag v1.99.07.
• 2011-11-20: Update chmsee to v1.99.06, you can download it from https://github.com/jungleji/chmsee/tags.
• 2011-08-23: Update chmsee to v1.99.05 to work with xulrunner 6.0.
• 2011-07-16: Update fuel component to work on xulrunner 5.0. Tag v1.99.03.
• 2011-07-02: Tag v1.99.02 for testing with xulrunner 5.0. tarball can be downloaded from https://github.com/jungleji/chmsee/downloads.
• 2011-05-03: Sorry! A wrong version src/Makefile mixed in Release 1.3.1 tarball, so release a clean version 1.3.1.1.
• 2011-05-03: Release 1.3.1 compatible with xulrunner 2.0.*.
• 2011-04-16: Xul + XPCOM based ChmSee code is imported to github. In the next major release, ChmSee will be a xulrunner application. Gtk based ChmSee 1.* code has been moved from master branch to gtk.
• 2011-01-28: ChmSee with webkit, patch provided by HuangJianZhong.CN. You can get and try it by checking out the webkit branch from github.
• 2011-01-16: ChmSee 1.3.0 release.
• 2010-12-14: ChmSee 1.3.0-rc2. Fix filter bug in index tree.
• 2010-12-01: ChmSee 1.3.0-rc1. Follow XDG Base Directory Specification. Global font setting.
• 2010-07-23: ChmSee 1.2.0 release.
• 2010-06-28: ChmSee 1.2.0-rc2. Fix crash problem.
• 2010-05-30: ChmSee 1.2.0-rc1. Add page previous&next function, and improved language setting.
• 2010-04-12: ChmSee 1.1.0. No more bugs found, so release it.
• 2010-04-05: ChmSee 1.1.0-rc2. Adjust context menu, add windows-1250 encoding.
• 2010-03-29: ChmSee 1.1.0-rc1. Fix build problem on gentoo and fedora.
• 2010-03-26: ChmSee 1.1.0-beta. support xulrunner 1.9.2+
• 2009-09-14: ChmSee 1.0.7 released. fix bugs, 2 new languages supported.
• 2009-07-12: ChmSee 1.0.6 released. support index, fix bugs (http://bit.ly/8g0bm), 8 new languages supported.
• 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 compiling, you need to check following libraries or their development packages already installed on your system.

• cmake >= 2.6.4
• gtk2 >= 2.18
• xulrunner >= 1.9
• chmlib
• libxml2
• libgcrypt
• intltool

Build and install

$ tar xzf chmsee-1.3.0.tar.gz
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ../chmsee-1.3.0
$ make
# make install

Linux Distribution

• Arch Linux: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/chmsee/
• Debian: http://packages.debian.org/sid/chmsee
• Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chmsee
• Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/chmsee
• openSUSE: http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/opensuse/chmsee.html
• 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/

Authors

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