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Using Application Help

The most natural place to find help or documentation information for any application is within the application itself. Nearly every desktop application you use in Linux includes some form of online help that you can open from within the application.

Documentation of this sort is often the most useful type of help because it is written by the authors of the application in question. Furthermore, this kind of documentation typically assumes that readers are actually using the application while reading the help information. As a result, you should be able to use the in-application documentation to work through your problem step by step, often with alternative suggestions and other information to assist you with snags you might ...