Can anyone recommend a utility for reading CHM files that you get in Windows, but on Linux and Ideally Slackware.

I'm trying out XCHM but I have KDE 3.4 on the desktop and was wondering whether there was anything in KDE for reading CHM files? I saw something called ReadeR but am not sure if that is what I want.

Many thanks.

Try this one (KchmViewer): http://kchmviewer.sourceforge.net/

Thanks guys.

I've already seen and have got xchm working. It works well, except for an error about locales when it first starts, but it looks different to the other apps as they are mostly KDE apps.

KCHM sounds more like what I am looking for so I will take a look at that.

I compiled xchm myself. Really, easy. But you need the wxwidgets (gtk) first. Compiled that myself as well.

By the way xchm is developed on Slackware.

edited: you need libchm as well. for compilation

I think you already have a chm viewer, so yuo do not need anyting else. I use Slack 10.1 and KDE 3.3.2.
There is no problem to open chm files with Konqueror. So I suppose this is valid for KDE 3.4 as well. So forget about xchm, kchm, whatever...

and folks, do not underestimate Konqueror. It supports so many protocols, files and others.

I have been looking for a decente CHM file viewer for a while... more specifically, for a CHM2PDF converter, but I have only seen Windows programs, and it did not work under Wine. Anyways, in my search I found mentioned xchm, but it does not do anti-aliasing, and the files looks so ugly, they are truly unreadable on-screen. I also fount the GTK-based Gnochm (http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/), but because of all its dependencies, I was not able to install it. I just tried Konqueror, and it works fine (Actually, it showed me the "Open with" dialog, so I told it to open it with 'konqueror') but I run XFCE and I'd rather have a GTK alternative that works... But I guess Konqueror can do for now.

-- L*F

Thanks for that piece of info. I'd seen that mentioned before but when I try to open a CHM file in Konqueror I get:

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A load of hex.

I do this by right-clicking on the file and selecting open in new tab or new window. Any ideas where I am going wrong? Am I missing a plugin or something?

Many thanks

I am using SUSE 10 . I tried using Konqueror for opening .chm files but could not do so ,however kchmveiwer works fine.

xchm/kchm seem to have been dropped in slack 10.2. I downloaded the package for xchm and it needed wxgtk so I downloaded and installed that package, now it needs another package so I still need to get it and install it. But I did a full install of slack 10.2 and it wasn't on my system.