To recreate the generated part of barrierc manpage use a command like: help2man -N --output=barrierc.1 --name='Barrier Keyboard/Mouse Client' /path/to/barrierc And for barriers: help2man -N --output=barriers.1 --name='Barrier Keyboard/Mouse Server' /path/to/barriers After that manually fixup: * replace your home directory with $HOME in barriers.1 * revert formatting of FILES and COPYRIGHT sections to match formatting of existing version. * add note referencing this file for instructions to the first line.