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Re: menus (was Re: proposal for limiting menu icons color and size)



On 12 Mar 1997, Kenneth MacDonald wrote:

>> To be honest, I've found it fairly trivial to integrate the Debian menus
>> into an existing .fvwmrc. An m4 "include" in the right place and one extra
>> menu definition gives me a "Debian" submenu without affecting the rest of
>> my horribly-hacked fvwm setup.
>> 
>> [snip]
>
>Could you send me an example of this?  I'll add it to the fvwm95
>documentation.

OK, here are the relevant bits. This comes from something that was, back
in the mists of time, a fairly standard fvwmrc. Then the wiles of m4 took
me :-) . Of course, it will need fiddling with to be useful for
fvwm2/95...

##############################################################################
#now define the menus - defer bindings until later

#add the Debian automatically-generated menus... - needs a "MainMenu" entry 
#in the main menu...
include(`/etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook')

[definitions for lots of other Popups, now to the main menu]

# This menu will fire up some very common utilities
Popup "Utilities"
        Title   "Hammer Menu"
        Exec    "Shell"         exec xterm &
        Exec    "Dos In A Box"  exec xdos &
        Exec    "Pine"          exec xterm -ut -geometry 80x50 -T Pine -n PINE -e pine &
        Exec    "Trn"           exec xterm -ut -geometry 80x50 -T Trn -n TRN -e trn4 &
        Nop     ""
        Popup   "Utilities"     Utils
        Popup   "Applications"  Local-Apps
        Nop     ""
        Popup   "Debian"        MainMenu
        Nop     ""
        Popup   "Fvwm"          Quit-Verify
        Popup   "Modules"       Module-Popup
        Refresh "Refresh screen"
        Nop     ""
        Nop     ""
        Quit    "Logout"
EndPopup


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