Re: does anyone here use update-menus?

[cls/cs <pplaw@pcisys.net>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:05:55PM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> Hi all..
> 
> I've added new menu files to /etc/menu but
> update-menus doesn't see them.  I got this to
> work with one menu file I added, but I've added
> three more since and they don't show up.
> here's one that I am trying to get to work, this
> is /etc/menu/jed:
> 
> ?package(jed):needs="text" \
>                 section="Apps/Editors" \
>                 title="jed" \
>                 command="/usr/bin/jed"
> 
> just as a comparison, here is my emacs, which
> does work, /usr/lib/menu/emacs20:
> 
> ?package(emacs20):\
>   needs="text"\
>   section="Apps/Editors"\
>   title="Emacs 20"\
>   command="/usr/bin/emacs20"\
>   icon=/usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/gnu.xpm
> 
> 
> the only difference is the icon, but that
> shouldn't matter..
> does anyone else see something that maybe i'm
> missing?
> The docs say that anything in
> /etc/menu will override /usr/lib/menu
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> xucaen
> 

i'm just guessing here, but my /etc/menu/foo use:

	needs="X11"\  (rather than, "text")
	...

once again, ...just guessing.

bentley taylor
potato, icewm/liquid

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