Re: Bug#90867: Menu is more important than it would seem
> fvwm supports dynamic menus, there are examples of having e.g. content
> of a directory as a submenu etc... it's just that current fvwm package
> is designed so that the menu is read once in the beginning. nothing
> prevents us (somebody:-) to change it so that menu definition is
> periodically checked or that update-menu does something that causes fvwm
> to reread the menu... (this might get messy, I guess it could get
> implemented by menu methods...)
Not too messy. All that needs to be done is add the following line to
/etc/menu-methods/fvwm:
postrun="killall -USR1 /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm"
(or maybe a slight variation of that).
It would cause fvwm to be restarted every time a pacakge is loaded, though.
joostje
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